RE: Reflecting

"It's amazing how people change over 4 quick years."

      Like several others, I choose to respond to my eagle-bestfriend, Adam and his post on self-reflection and change.
High school: supposedly the best four years of your life. And if there's one thing I can assure you on, it's that everyone changes in one way or another through these last years of free education. Change rolls on the wheels of inevitability and I've always been along for the ride. Though we may not realize it in our day-to-day lives, once we look back on how things used to be, the difference of it all suddenly becomes magnified.

     Today I was talking to Trevor about how our childhood years seem to always be classified as the "golden years". The carefree years where we took youth for granted and all everyone wanted to do was grow up. Now, when we have grown up, obligations and responsibilities to uphold are simply strung along, making it easy to miss the old days, wishfully thinking we could all be young again.

     I have undoubtedly done my fair share of growing up, and for the most part, we all have. You begin to cherish your education and witness things you'd never think to see. You fight with the people you care about, you get fucked over, you break a heart or have your heart broken, you might lose a best friend, laugh, cry, and embarrass yourself. Shit happens, and you learn it's not what, but how you handle it. These bittersweet experiences have shaped the product of our lives, teaching us to speak with conviction yet question our environment.

     It's healthy to do some self-reflecting every once in a while. Allowing yourself to be conscious of circumstantial change gives you the opportunity to chart your physical, mental, and spiritual growth through a current perspective. To resist invasion is to resist the responsibility of growing up and into your own story. Only fools resist change, and because I feel I am in the right mindset and maturity to finally say this: I believe it is okay to exploit change. We are nearing the pinnacle of our ever-changing youth, therefore one should employ themselves to whatever they like. Get some experience on the clock.
Who cares if you're too hipster underground, who cares if you're too mainstream conformist? Do what makes you happy. Some change for better, some for worse, but always change for yourself. Life is change, growth is optional.


Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. - Winston Churchill