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This is the part where I ramble on and try to put my thoughts on a subject into some order. It probably won't work, but I wanted to try to make this thought process evolve, so here goes:
Individual people can change their political parties, their religious affiliations, indeed their entire belief systems many times during the course of their lives. "Conservative at 20, no heart. Liberal at 40, no brains" is a quote you've heard, I bet, and I know I've at least heard it spoken by an American and a German. However, not only do individuals completely change their minds during their lifetimes, they also change physically all the way down to the cellular level. No cell in your body as an adult was there when you were a child. They are all new cells.
Societies also change and evolve. Societal norms can change so rapidly that middle-aged Americans today went to segregated schools as children. Interracial marriage was illegal when many of them were teenagers, racism was 100% ok when their parents were children, and their not-too-distant ancestors could have owned slaves.
The earth itself changes, and species evolve into others (yes, they do). Our species has only existed in the form we know now for a few hundred thousand years, and already, not only has the earth changed drastically, but it's also been changed by us. The universe changes as well.
This change is part of us. It's why we exist, and it's why we are what we are and why we do what we do. In reality, it is what we are. We are change. We embody change. Barack Obama, whether consciously or not, won the Presidency in a landslide because he played off of this very fundamental notion. Every person who has ever tried to prevent change has always failed, and every person who tries to prevent change always will fail.
My point is this - and it's an obvious point that nobody will be surprised by - everything changes. Everyone changes. There is nothing in this universe that hasn't or won't, at some point, change. I think this is a fundamental constant, and the only one that's really constant in every field of science, even quantum physics. Nothing stays the same forever. Nothing. We all know this, and yet most of us live every second of our lives pretending it is not true.
The only way anything you want to happen in this universe will happen is if it involves change. If you want stagnation, you will always end up disappointed. So, embrace what Ghandi and countless others have said, whether in these words or otherwise: Become the change you want to see.
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