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Change

Submitted by skykid on Thursday, 9 July 2009View Comments

ChangeThese days I saw what the word ” change” really means …

It has been a rather stressful experience to me -- even know I agree with the opinion of few of my friends I have been chatting with that change is natural and unavoidable . And when talking about change in people “everyone changes differently , but the inevitable is that changes are part of every one’s life”.  Some people say that change is a good thing -- people evolve both physically and mentally ( most coming of age films focus on those ” changes ” too ) -- but is it always the case ?

Can sometimes change be for worse ?

I stumbled upon two good quotes -- the first one :

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” Anatole France

Trough many cool and interesting things are happening everyday , for some reason I tend to appreciate better the things that have passed  -- a love or a friendship that is no more -- but the memory of it leaves on.  Another aspect of the change as a phenomen is the hope one could have about the feature -- change is often anticipated , but one hopes that he could manage the way it is going to happen and the result it is going to evoke. Yet one of my favorite films ” Mirage ” starts with the following quote from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche :

” Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man “

Well in any case if you have read until now -- I have to treat you with something “change” related -- and so it is -- the famous song of Scorpions ” Winds of change “  :

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The photo used in this post is taken from Apesara`s photo stream at Flick

  • btnspl
    I know what you mean about that it's sometimes hard to change, i have been in such positions quite a lot of times (i think everyone has).

    Change is not always a good thing, almost never in my oppinion. Well, that is of course if a person had it worse than after the change. Lets put it like this... if a child gets beaten by his parents and the government rescues the child, that is a good change. But in many other cases, for example when a person moves to another town and loses all his old friends, that change is of course never a good change. Some people might say that "oh well, you will meet some new and maybe even better friends", but what if that never happens? A similar thing happened to me, sure i got some new friends but they does not and will probably never meet up with the same kind of friendship i had with my earlier friends.
  • Thing is that sometimes its hard to recognize the changes in oneself. At the same time I just stumbled on a short movie in which I saw a friend of mine - I haven`t seen in four years - this pretty much inspired my post about " changes ".

    Thank you for you comment btnspl !
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