Are Changes always Good?

What does the word ‘change’ trigger in you? Is it the narcissistic urge of evolving exponentially? Is it about the world transforming at the speed of a butterfly’s evolution? It sounds like such an exhilarating thing; evolving yourself every day to a better phase, seeing the world transform from horses to FALCON Heavy Rockets. It’s all fancy and beautiful until you realize the word ‘narcissistic’ in the so-called “change for good”. What if you changed for good but hurt your loved ones? Is that a good change? The transformation of this little planet we all brag about is on a roller coaster of climate change. We might have to start living on boats after a few scores because all the glaciers would have been melted. So much for the 7 billion strong planets. Now, is that a good change?

I, for one, wish to have been born in simpler times. How wonderful would it be to have a gazillion books in your library because the movies aren’t made. To admire the work of Shakespeare in the language he wrote it in and not this ever-changing phase of the English language. To write books and poems, dipping my pen in the oceanic ink of innumerable possibilities because Albert Einstein and Mark Twain wouldn’t be even conceived yet. To be passionate about Newton’s laws and not just study it with stubborn deadlines because this presentation based academic programs would have just reached the banyan tree and slate scenario. To fall for just one woman and write her a sonnet because social media has only reached the newspaper phase.

There has been a perception made about the changes. “If you want to survive, evolve with the change.” I am all for it until that very survival is met with nuclear weapons and chemical arsenals. But the beauty of it lies on the other side of this macabre coin. When you are drowning in the abyss of alcohol, drugs or depression, when you are stuck in this monotonous farrago of dormant tasks; all you need is CHANGE.

We are all stuck in this dichotomy of different philosophies hovering around ‘change’ but it is all based on how you perceive it. The perception of change is something that cannot be defined by knowledge or someone’s approval. This ineffable situation for a decision to change lies beyond the realm of good and bad or truth and falsehood.