They say that as human beings we never stop evolving. We supposedly learn new things up untill the minute we perish. Every single experience therefore presents an opportunity to grow, to better one self, to ascend to new hights. We're taught that we should always strive for more. More knowledge. More power. More respect. More money. The sky is the limit. Or so we're led to believe...
People rarely change. At least not in ways that truly matter. We all try to hide things we deem would criple our ability to succeed. We tell ourselves that we changed, that we're different, that we learned from our mistakes. But the truth is that most of us never do. Not because we don't try hard enough, but because deep down inside we didn't really want to. When that moment comes, when we accept every bit of who we are, we've reached the ultimate goal...
And after that, there's no more room for growth. We are what we are. Nothing is going to change that. So all this crap, we tell ourselves and the people around us, that we can change if they just give us a chance, is just another means of concealment. Because we're afraid of what might happen if the truth was ever revealed...
Some of those fears are justified. I mean people can learn to live with a lot of things. We can tolerate all sorts of different people. We can forgive countless indiscretions, atrocities and lies, because we realise that we all make mistakes and that in order to move on, we have to be forgiving. Though there are some things that we can't expect people to forgive. And when we've commited such an act, we musn't forget that just because others might not be able to forgive us, that doesn't mean that we can't forgive ourselves...
