If change is for good, let it happen

Pre-Darwinists or post-Darwinists, evolutionists or intellectualists, capitalists or socialists, change has always been a sought after phenomenon among everyone. I'll restrict myself to the intellectual change and also to the change that happens for good, because I can't really have my freedom writing about the other changes. But whatever the change is, it's a fact that if we don't cope up with it, we're only exposing ourselves to some tough time ahead.

I think I've seen four kinds of people with regards to their willingness to change. While I've broadly tried to categorize people here, which in the first place is a wrong attempt by itself, it is fair to note that all of us traverse among these different categories during different confrontations and phases of life.

1. The proud and immutable: These are the people who are partially self-righteous and are very difficult to induce change into. For example, if they believe in something, they're probably going to feel superior about their belief and silly about any other belief that they might reject other beliefs. These are the people who don't seek to rationally evaluate the confrontation.

2. The proud and hungry: These are also the proud people, however they're open to change. For example, if they believe in something, they may or may not feel superior about it but will surely accommodate any other belief, at the least. Sometimes however, these people are a little stuck on not losing what they're that they fail to look at change in an unbiased open manner.

3. The humble and hungry: The crave in these people to know more and grow more is so very evident because they do not let their pride interfere with knowledge. For example, if they have a belief, they know why they believe in it and so will be able to figure out the rationale behind any other belief too. They don't just accommodate other beliefs, they appreciate and accept too.

4. The humble and mutable: These are people who dangerously tread at the border. For example, today they might believe in something while tomorrow it could be something else. They just go far beyond accepting to actually embrace. They may not make popular leaders, but they surely create conducive confrontations.

Trying to find out which category is better is like trying to find out whether the tiger is better or the deer is, in the ecosystem. Everyone has to exist to complete the ecosystem. For the sake of the concluding paragraph of this post, let me try to differentiate personality from character. Personality, I feel, is something with which people try to identify us and is unique to us. Character, I feel, can usually be classified as either a virtue or a vice and is something we imbibe as we go.

I think as long as we save our personality and change our character for good, we're in the right direction. I'm not sure how much it's possible though to disintegrate personality from character, but life is not that simple anyway - sometimes we've to change our personality too. If change is for good, let it happen.