On change

You see the title on top of the page? That is my number one enemy. I bet all of you must have gone through the horrible struggles during war against this monster. But after you get through it you will think “Hey, if I didn’t do this I wouldn’t have known how much I liked/hated what I did. I’m glad that I have witnessed this change."

Now what is change? Change is when you do/become something different from what you were currently doing/being. People have different perspectives on change. Some people might think it’s a great idea to do something different for a change. They will think it’s exciting. But these people aren’t shoving their old stuff out of the way. The people who do that are just people who hate what they are doing/being. And then there are people who just can’t stand change. Whenever they hear something like “Son, your school is going to change due to there being a way closer school down our street”, they start to lose their minds.

If you are asking which one of these people am I , I’m one of those people who cannot bear any sort of change. Except that I’m just a little more crazy. For example, if anyone tells me that my wallpaper in the living room is going to have to change I get really sad. For some reason in my head all inanimate objects have feelings and none of them should be thrown away or casted out of their religion (Yes they have religions, some of them being wood, metal and etc.). If you disagree with me you probably have to take medication.

But even though getting through change is difficult (I’m talking to the people who can’t stand change. If you don’t mind change go ahead and live pleasant lives.), you still need to do it because it helps you to try new things, therefore making you a person who is open to try anything. Now I’m not saying that whatever you change about yourself, keep doing it forever. Just try it once. Then who knows, you may even love what you’re doing. Or you may not love what you are doing but that’s where my point comes in. You don’t need to do what you hate. Even if you didn’t like what you did at least you can have the right to say that you tried.

Change is also what could give you success. If you were currently doing something you weren’t good at, then you changed your job to something else which you are great at doing then congrats! You may even get some awards later on in your life and then you can flex it to your kids. That is if you change yourself by not being alone. See what I did there?! (That was just a joke. Don’t take it seriously.)

Now the difficulty of changing depends on how much you care about what you are changing. The problem with me is that I get comfortable way too quickly no matter what it is. During the summer holidays when I went to the UK, after I stayed with my cousins I had to stay in a youth hostel with my parents and my sister.

I’m not lying when I say that I say that if my dad had tried to reach his hands across the room and touch the walls he would have succeeded. This room was so small that both my mom and my dad got claustrophobic the first hour we arrived. My sister didn’t really care. She was just watching on her tablet and playing with her toys. I’m surprised that the people were even able to fit those two beds and a bathroom.

But here is where I’m getting to my point. It may feel a little uncomfortable for a little bit but after that I am at peace and I have made a great connection which the room. Me and him have had many nostalgic memories. This is literally what I said to my mother when we left. Her response was “Sandesh, first of all it was a room, a freakin’ non-living object, second of all how could you have nostalgic memories? WE LITERALLY LEFT RIGHT NOW”.

And you know what is so unbelievably annoying about me. It’s that I’m not an open person so my mother has to force me to change, and then after I do change I get so comfortable with that change that when I have to change again, I will refuse to do it!

How many times have I said the word change. If you say it more than 5 times it doesn’t even sound like a word anymore.

Oh yeah my parents want me to mention this. You want to know how I came up with this topic? It’s because I was changing my kitchen in my house and you all know how I would react to that. And I had a conversation with my parents about how I’m not very good at handling change. So my dad comes up with the idea of me writing about this for my essay.

Also because it’s my parents who decide what I’m writing. And it’s also because I want to get paid.

But back to the point, look at me right now. I’m currently taking a tennis class and I’d say that I’m doing good. I’m taking a keyboard class and I’m a master at keyboard now. And I also tried coding but that didn’t work out too well. But what’s common in all of this was that it was a change from me sitting on my butt playing video games.

What I’m saying is that change is one of those few things that is a necessity to a good life. And I’m not saying stop what you were doing before you changed. You can always re-visit it at some point.

So if you make some changes you could be a very experienced person.

So go out there! Try new things! Play an instrument! Play a sport! Draw something! Research on something! I’m biased but try a video game! Make a YouTube channel !

And even when you get kids you can force them to change too!

Well, it depends on the child.

BYEE!!!!