Filed under: Life Lessons
If there is anything that is constant in life, that would be CHANGE. Cliche and overused phrase really, but how very true.
Everything changes over time, whether you like it or not. Feelings about a person change over time ; you can like a person initially, fall in love with him, and yet could unfortunately also hate the person eventually. You can be a potato lover one day and then the next when you become pregnant could be disgusted by it.
We have all undergone changes in our lives in one way or another. Whether the change is for the better or for worse, we cannot tell. But there is one thing that I have learnt about changes, and that is never to say ‘Never“.
When I was younger, I was a determined person, well, to the extent of being stubborn. I held my opinions strongly, and was proud that they differed from the norm. Like how in university, when my girl friends around me started tweezing their eyebrows and I refused to do so, stating that according to ‘fengshui’, my eyebrows were the windows to my wealth. Or how I didn’t like putting on makeup to school, even though my friends were doing so. Or even how I hated allowing my hair to flow over my shoulders because the weather was simply too hot, and tying it up in a ponytail was the logical and cooler way to go.
And yet as years went by, and I grew up and learnt more about grooming, and I went for facials and had make up for presents, that those so called beliefs and opinions about what I should or should not do slowly disappeared. Gradually, I started to tweeze my eyebrows to keep them shapely, had fun experimenting with different kinds of make up and even allowed my hair down as it looked sexier and was less painful on my scalp (really, it’s probably because air con is more accessible when I started working).
I had to ‘eat my own words’ as I realised that I had changed. That the things I had said “Never” to, I had started doing now. And I laugh at myself, for having been so adamant in my thoughts, my actions and my words.
After all, things are never (opps, or should i say ‘hardly’) stagnant in this world and we change as we grow and we learn along the way. Wouldn’t life be boring if things didn’t change? So the next time you catch yourself saying “never”, try hard to think again, and rephrase those thoughts 
Things ‘never’ stay constant….
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