I think about this too -- all the time. I think we all do to some degree. What's interesting and often overlooked is that while we do inevitably change, the culture and the politics and the art surrounding us changes simultaneously. This means whatever change we experience is by definition…
I think about this too -- all the time. I think we all do to some degree. What's interesting and often overlooked is that while we do inevitably change, the culture and the politics and the art surrounding us changes simultaneously. This means whatever change we experience is by definition relative. So perhaps a different question is: did our internal change align with our external surroundings? Vice versa? Or somewhere in between?
I don't philosophize too much because I don't pretend to have any answers. But, in biology, there's an adage that equilibrium means death. Change must therefore be life.
"Am I the one who’s changed, in the years since?"
I think about this too -- all the time. I think we all do to some degree. What's interesting and often overlooked is that while we do inevitably change, the culture and the politics and the art surrounding us changes simultaneously. This means whatever change we experience is by definition relative. So perhaps a different question is: did our internal change align with our external surroundings? Vice versa? Or somewhere in between?
I don't philosophize too much because I don't pretend to have any answers. But, in biology, there's an adage that equilibrium means death. Change must therefore be life.
Glad to see you back in the saddle.
This is such a beautiful and comforting comment, Amran. Thank you.