Hey Readers!

Thank you for your views and acknowledgements to my previous posts. It’s just this kind of overwhelming response what a writer craves for. While  I express my gratitude, I would connect it to my today’s caption ” Change is constant”. Just before I started blogging, the hidden writer in me was throbbing to come out in a more explicit manner than getting restricted to only whatsapp write ups which got lost in those numerous forwards. This change in my platform of expression has brought a lot more confidence and trust upon the writer within me who is strong enough to capture people’s vision and thoughts in a positive and productive manner! I wish this Change leads to another Changes in the life of my readers as well as mine in return. 

Whereas in the last post of mine “The Ultimate Truth”, I emphasized on Nothing is Permanent, I choose the today’s topic not in contradiction to the previous one, but as a supplement to what we read earlier.

I call CHANGE not as PERMANANT but a CONSTANT as in my opinion CHANGE is not a THING but a PROCESS that implies upon “scene splits” or “curtain changes” outside and within us while we play our roles on the stage of Life.

To be relatively specific, I consider expressing CHANGE as a transformation process that we experience in the five elements of our lives viz NATURE(Air), TIME(Water), PLACE(Ether), PEOPLE(Earth) AND LIFE(Fire) itself!

Hey, I hope you all haven’t started JUDGING on what the post would be like-Some Yoga Lesson or Some Meditation Course! Absolutely not! There are many more experts in the field and I definitely do not fall even near to any of the expertise and intellect of this sort. So you may sit back, relax and continue reading through your reading glasses and be comfortable in your casuals or formals, no need to get into your Yoga Outfits, that’s not what we are going to do here😎

So talking of the elements or nevertheless the dimensions of CHANGE, let’s start with what CHANGE has to do with NATURE!

Ever since the human evolution, NATURE has been kind enough to absorb all drastic CHANGES that the Supreme Creation “HUMANS” forces upon it to fulfill their own hedonistic requirements and desires. When Install about NATURE, I am not only referring to the trees we cut, the air we polluted, the water we squandered, the soil we barrened, the squeaks we replaced with horns and honks and the climatic patterns we disturbed; but I am also referring to the HUMAN NATURE! The nature that has transformed from being kind to cruel, that can kill for wealth and then spend it on health, that has drifted from being generous to miser, that has slipped out from being empathetic to indifferent, that has grown from staying rooted to flying high, maneuvered connecting digitally rather than emotionally, feels empowered with wealth rather than wisdom!

Alongwith the great grand ecological imbalances that humans have brought to MOTHER NATURE, they have also polluted their hearts with ego and false pride, damaged their relations by being judgemental and imposing the burden of unfulfilled expectations, strangled themselves into materialism and glamour so much so they can steal and kill for it!The entire ESSENCE of BEING HUMAN has CHANGED and is still CHANGING!

One thing really good about this change in NATURE is that it’s reversal and replenishment is still in HUMAN hands and hearts. We still have enough time and technology to replenish what we extracted extravagantly and we still hold the hearts of gold that can transform us back from being misanthropes to philanthropists, from being selfish to selfless, from being indifferent to altruists. Just as the AIR has the power of BOTH TAKING AND GIVING LIFE, NATURE (BOTH HUMAN AND MOTHER NATURE) have the power of destruction and restoration both. It’s our choice WHICH CHANGE we opt for!

Next comes the element that CHANGE is closely connected to and cannot survive without i.e. TIME. As I mentioned in the beginning of the prose, CHANGE in my opinion is a PROCESS and any process will take TIME.

We generally say and hear, “This too shall pass”. This refers to the time that’s ahead of now! As the TIME changes, so does the CHANGE. And none better than GOOGLE PHOTOS makes us “Take a look back in time”! It not only takes us to the time we captured in clicks, but also to the time, it didn’t exist at all!

Everyday Google Photos sends me “Look back in time” clicks of my twin angels (since their birth was the time I registered into it) and reminds me not only of how they were and how fast they are growing, but also of how I would have been or my parents would have been, how my pictures would have been prior to the GOOGLE ERA!

TIME is NOSTALGIA AND SURPRISE both, evident enough of CHANGE IS CONSTANT!

While we live in the present, we sometimes tend to regret upon things we could have done other ways in the past or we start planning and projecting our future. My dear friends, FOR WHAT WE DID IN THE PAST, TIME HAS CHANGED TODAY, AND WHAT WE PLAN TO DO IN FUTURE, TIME IS YET TO COME, just as WATER time flows by, neither can you PHOTOSHOP the past nor can you add FILTERS to the future, the only thing you can do right now is CROP your stresses of the past and the future, cherish the moment and remember that CHANGE IS CONSTANT!

What you did in the past also won’t last and what you’ll do in the future will also become a past! No matter what CHANGE will remain!

Subsequently, let’s jump into SPACE! Oh, I’m sorry, it’s the third element or I better call it a dimension of CHANGE, i.e. PLACE that I have deliberately compared to Ether(The Sky or the Universe).

We the humans generally tend to restrict ourselves into the boundaries of a home, a town, a city, a state, a country, or the world! Dear friends, that isn’t the end! Be it science fiction or the mythology (whichever your belief is in), both categorically mention that ” The place where we live is only a grain of sand that sways in the inexplicably bigger PLACE out there.” And of course that BIG PLACE and this one where we reside, both are vulnerable to CHANGE!

Be it your home, you’ll never stop buying new things or adding a new furniture or simply changing the home. Be it the workplace, you’ll never retire sitting at one particular desk. Be it the place of travel, you’ll never restrict to one. Be it the place of worship, you’ll have many to still visit. Be it the Universe, it would always keep revealing new secrets with still indefinite hidden ones to unveil.

So when we know the PLACE around us is BOUND TO CHANGE, why at all we comfort ourselves in a zone, let’s break the chains and let CHANGE surprise us and add versatility and dynamism to our lives that we unintentionally reject by thinking that THE PLACE SHOULD NOT CHANGE! My dear friends, I would reiterate, CHANGE IS CONSTANT! And any place or any space can’t be left aloof of it! Go choose wherever!

And now, comes the most vulnerable dimension of CHANGE-THE PEOPLE!

It’s a general human tendency to generalize opinions about the people they meet in life, “He is like that only”, “She can never change”, “His entire family is like that”, and then all these opinions become THE FINAL JUDGEMENT about the people in context.

My fellow humans, like Nature, Time and Place, People can also CHANGE! Don’t be afraid to trust those people again whom you mistrusted earlier, there would be less to lose and more to gain if you do so, lost will be the TRUST that you did again if it again went wrong, but GAIN would be a stronger relation with that person if your RE-TRUST did not go wrong! Don’t be afraid to take and give chances! PEOPLE DO CHANGE! NATURE CHANGES PEOPLE! TIME CHANGES PEOPLE! PLACE CHANGES PEOPLE! That is where the concept of sending spoilt people to rehabilitation centres for a duration comes from. We all should stop restricting ourselves with our biased and judgemental opinions about people and self. Good people can get better and better the best! On the contrary, good people can get worse too or vice versa. It’s purely situational and while the situations change, PEOPLE CHANGE!

When PEOPLE CHANGE, places can also change, nature can change and Time of course is bound to change. With PEOPLE’S betterment, a house, a workplace, a neighbourhood, a town, state, a country and the world on the whole can become a better a PLACE to live in! Likewise, with PEOPLE’S deterioration living standards all around tend to get deteriorated.

I hereby remember an anecdote of Sikh Guru Sh. Guru Nanak Dev Ji who blessed the virtuous to scatter around and wander throughout the world and asked the vicious genre to settle together at one place. He was a visionary of the CHANGE that the virtuous group would spread while they scatter and wander in various parts of the world, while the vicious people will restrict to a smaller portion of the whole big world.

I myself have seen many people go through a spellbinding transformation from being extremely rude to so polite and humble, from being envious to so appreciative, from being short tempered to so patient, being a listener more than a speaker, so as to make me strongly endorse my belief that PEOPLE DO CHANGE! It is a myth that after a certain age, people cannot change. Age is no bar for CHANGE!

Of course, you may like to mention that the CHANGE is not always a good change as it appears from the above, it can be vice versa too, but again it is susceptible to CHANGE! Hence needless to mention🙂 Moreover, the kind of person I am, I would always focus on what POSITIVE CHANGES can be there, be it NATURE, TIME, PLACE OR PEOPLE, as I strongly believe that we have the power to moderate those changes be it big or little.

So when we are the moderator, let’s mould and look at the changes our way, let’s add a bit of euphemism to our thoughts and light to our vision so as to take all CHANGES in a favourable and positive manner!Just as the seasons come and go, just as night comes after day and day after night, just as mood swings, just as your Spotify playlist shuffles, PEOPLE CAN AND DO CHANGE!

People are the most flexible dimension or element of change and that’s why compared to earth that has unknown hidden elements but has the capability to nurture them all. Similarly, people can change from outside and within the way they wish to and the way they choose to unlike the seasons and the day-night periodicity. So, give yourself and others, another chance both for good and for worse, because PEOPLE DO CHANGE!

LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST, the fifth and the utmost element of CHANGE is LIFE! When any of the above 4 elements or dimension CHANGES, LIFE CHANGES!

I have on purpose chosen LIFE to be the FIRE element as that’s the only FIRE in us. We are talking, writing, reading, listening, judging, cribbing, grumbling, appreciating and CHANGING day by day, just because we are ALIVE! That CHANGE is the SPARK and LIFE is the FIRE lit with that SPARK.

It’s finally the attitude that matters to keep it lit or black it out. When I see CHANGES around that tend to take me away from my COMFORT ZONE, I tell myself, that this is the time I flaunt my strength of Accepting the CHANGE in my favour and mould it my way.

Just a day before, an electrician replaced a faulty fan of my house with a fan that operates through remote control(the first ever ceiling fan of that kind I have had in my house). I got fascinated at first but in another moment, I thought I won’t make it a habit not to get up and switch the fan on and off from the regulator switch so I won’t insert a battery into that remote. I manipulated how I want to control the fan, rather than the remote telling me how to and where from.

And then the very next moment, I realised that the coming generation might have only remote operated lights and fans with no external switches to regulate from, will that be a CHANGE for them that we’ll call as the CHANGE OF FUTURE or will that be a CHANGE that I got reluctant to accept or adapt in the past? My question still remains unanswered, the coming generation will answer it though!

So the point is, it’s our attitude that matters. As fast and as tactfully we adapt to CHANGES in and around, clearer shall be the next step forward in our journey of LIFE. I strongly opine that most of the CHANGES we can choose to make or undo(Step-1), while the rest are bound to happen depending upon the choice we made at Step-1.

Instead of cribbing about, why other fans of my house are not remote operated, I choose to flaunt about that one remote controlled ceiling fan I got in my living room and call my home a SMART HOME😎 And look, suddenly, just by inserting a battery into that tiny black remote control, I CHANGED my home from a REGULAR HOME to a SMART HOME!

Instead of grumbling about the trees cut off alongside road, I would choose to plant 10 of them alongside another road elsewhere.

Instead of blaming technology or industry or the government for the pollution and dirt all around, I choose to myself wear a mask, keep my surroundings clean and teach my kids to adapt clean and green technology and in hand.

Instead of finding faults in others I choose to CHANGE my own opinions and attitude towards them so as to sieve out and retain only what pleases.

But of course, before we start moulding and CHANGING things our own way, we definitely need to accept that CHANGE IS CONSTANT!

If the world needs to grow, industries have to come, if industries have to come, waste has to be generated, if waste is generated, it has to be segregated! If people need to grow, they have to be educated, to be educated they have to go to places, if they go to places, they have to be and do things like they are done there! Be a Roman while in Rome! Remember?

So friends, CHANGE IS CONSTANT! How you choose to manage it, mould it or adapt to it is the CHANGE your LIFE would see!

So all the above elements or dimensions of CHANGE are just different in name while they are all interconnected. When one changes, the other does leading to a change in the next and so on…

Like what this blogsite has done to me! I experience a wonderful change in myself as I go on writing and expressing and learning and experiencing and introspecting and improvising myself with every penning of mine!

CHANGE OF NATURE, TIME, PLACE OR PEOPLE HAS DEFINITELY CHANGED MY LIFE FOR GOOD AND MADE ME A BETTER PERSON AND STILL ON TURNING EVEN BETTER! That’s how I turn all the changes my way, How would you prefer???

BEFORE YOU BE THE CHANGE THAT YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD, ACCEPT THAT CHANGE IS CONSTANT AND BOUND TO HAPPEN!

CHANGE IS CONSTANT. It has to be… Whether good or bad, happy or sad, amiable or grim, stout or trim, stressful or leisurable, stable or unstable, colourful or grey, night or day, relive or repent, CHANGE IS CONSTANT!

Signing out…

A yet another changed me!

Hoping to hear from a yet another changed you!

Shruti😇