Change: It starts with me

ONE particular saying that has always struck me as unintelligent is, “People don’t change.” I believe that although each individual has deep-rooted personality traits, we are not held captive by them. Believing that we can’t change encourages us to accept our weaknesses. Countless people with substance problems declare they aren’t capable of quitting. But then it is much easier to continue a harmful behavior when accountability is placed on an outside force like genetics or an “addictive personality”.

You can’t let your self hang on to the past. We grow up and we change, a little bit or a lot. It's been quite dreamy in the old days but as far as we all know, it's already time to be more serious. When we say people can't change, it is similar to saying people can't learn. Comparing ourselves from ourselves a few years ago, we can observe that we are the same but more. We ended up more creative and less fragile as we grew strong. It is quite difficult to avoid old habits sometimes just like I do I still have a wide imagination just like the old days but I said to myself, “Wake up!” Yes, I'm not a little girl anymore. Time flies, memories fade and people change. Perhaps this is the time to do things we were not able to do when we were little. In kindergarten, my class was asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Crayons danced across sheets of paper to illustrate our dream occupations. Our drawings were hung in the hallway for our parents to see. I remember looking down the line and seeing pictures of ballerinas dancing, firefighters putting out a blaze, and astronauts leaping across the moon, careers that were seen as typical dreams of five-year-olds. Teens are expected to know exactly what we want to be and how we are going to achieve that goal.

Perhaps it would be worthy to contemplate on this quote: “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change”. Keep growing, keep learning, and keep advancing.