Change

The bending and curving of thoughts; ideas; and morals happens on an occasional basis. People say that no one ever changes; yet people forget the variety of human behavior. The yes to one person will be a no the next day. Change happens on minuscule levels yet people rarely call it change.  These are just oddities; things that someone would exclaim, “that’s not like him” or “he rarely does that”. It is these minuscule bends and curves that a person takes that add up to the ultimate change. No matter how well you know someone they will always surprise you in a good or bad way. They will change and, if you do not accept that, you will be one of the talkers muttering away about how they can never change.

            People can hide things well; cloak their emotions through the intricacies of their face and mind. They will hide these emotions, these feelings for most of their life because they, themselves, are also caught under the illusion that they cannot change; that they cannot be compromised. It happens that the thing we treasure most is the underlying price that we can each be brought at.

            Humans that have been able to not give in to these demands; the Thomas Moores, the Socrates; these humans bet their lives and did not flinch. They bucked the tread; and some would argue were not even humans at all. These men could be considered to be on another level; a cut above the rest. This was for many reasons but one could be that they did not change. You would think the way we talk about others they would all be related to these men. That we were all Thomas Moores or Socrates. Ha, very funny I know.

            Do not be anger though, at the fact that you do compromise. Do not be mad that you show the commonalty of human behavior. Let these words be an echo in the caravan of your minds. An echo that, maybe, will reach the inner thoughts of your mind when it matters most; when good has shown itself to you. Then, just maybe, it will resonate enough to where you will be able to match the bet.

            But, yet again, we cannot all be Thomas Moores or Socrates.