Change

Day 201--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I thought that I would emphasize on the reason why I think people don't change, myself included. I've been thinking a lot about it and I just don't see how it's possible. Change doesn't exist in any part of this world. And the reason is because things don't change but rather they become or grow into a different sort of what they were before.

The previous being hasn't disappeared, it's simply evolved. Sometimes this evolution is so great that all that remains of the thing before it is an outer shell. But in the end whatever this thing or being has become, it always had that potential to grow into that aspect, even before it showed any signs of this thing called change.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that everyone has the potential of being a whole lot of different ways from the very beginning. And from the very beginning, series of events shape that person into a certain sort of being. Never new, never different, because that personality was always there. Just grown.

Take a tree for example. Let's say we watch it from a seed, and typically trees grow straight up and down. Well pretty soon this seed grows into a sapling and starts to look and behave differently. The sapling begins to breath (photosynthesis) and as it breathes it has an affect on the world around it. The sapling grows into a small tree. All of a sudden a larger, much older tree falls on our little tree. Well sometimes, instead of dying, a small tree will carry on to grow around the fallen log.
Fast forward 15 years. Now our little tree is much larger and the log that fell on it many years ago has decayed and become the forest floor. However, our tree shows the sign of it's struggles by the crook in it's trunk, caused by the eventful day it was crushed as a sapling.
From the beginning, this tree could have been straight, proud, and tall... and all at the same time, it had the potential to be warped, weathered, and tested of it's strength. The course of events effected the initial growth of this tree. But there was always a possibility of a different outcome.