Daily Cascade

When They Say, 'You've changed!'

Prompt:
If someone said "You've changed" to you, what would you think? Would this mean you’ve stopped living your life their way or just differently?

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If someone said, "You've changed," to me, I'd celebrate it. Surely, the context is what matters, but still, I can't imagine not being changed. After all, who stays the same as the day they are born? Life means change, and life changed me, even when I resisted.

Plus, thanks to change, I could learn and understand and be able to do more and more things, hopefully better and better. Thanks to change, I could become more flexible and open-minded.

With change, I learned how to resolve conflicts with difficult people. With change, I learned how to appreciate the people and the events in my life. This was because I grew, adapted to, and learned new things each time something changed, and along the way, I discovered new insights about life in general and who I am and who my friends and family are.

A couple of questions that popped up into my mind now are: Is an unplanned and unexpected change bad for us? And on the other side of the coin, what if all changes were good by default?

Inside my mind, the answers to both these questions end up in the same vein. Even if change may not be to our liking, we still learn a lot from it. True, a bad or a sad change would make us unhappy. But we still do learn from it, and that could be the default factor of a change.

As to the second part of the question, "Would this mean you’ve stopped living your life their way or just differently?" I'd say I only want to live my life my way. I can take a good advice or a sincere criticism and work with it, too, but I am who I am, and I have lived a long time, and learned how to embrace change as my life teacher along the way.

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