I am not who I was a year ago is a common statement we hear pretty regularly. We usually never accept the fact that people can change. We think if someone changes that they are not apart of this normal that we made so common. I have been thinking recently what is this normal exactly that people like to label people? Why not accept the fact that people change for the better or they need to put the past where it belongs and persevere for the future?

We often hear the statement "Don't trust people, people will change and you won't even catch it". But what does that statement really mean? Why do we constantly judge people on the way we perceive them?

We act as if we can't accept change. We say that people who changed up on us are betraying us. I feel like this ignorance of change needs to stop. The question I keep asking is: Why not embrace change? Why are we stuck on the fact that if someone changes they are no longer normal or trustworthy?

People change for many reasons. We can't stop people from changing but what we can stop is the ignorance of acknowledging someone's change as negative. Some people change for the better and some don't.

We should encourage change rather than discouraging it. It all comes within. Change becomes necessary when we don't like the way we live or our habits. I think there are many more reasons people decide to change but why hold change against them?

I am not who I was a year ago. I feel like I really changed and now I really do feel like I have set my priorities straight and know what really matters to me. I would be willing to give up what's important to me. I changed because I didn't like who I was. I didn't like how I used to think or would approach situations. I feel like if you were to see the old version of me and the newer version of me you would be able to identify the way I think is different now.

For as long as I can remember, I was always an open-minded person but I did decide to be ignorant for some topics. I realized that I can't be open-minded if I am not open-minded about everything. I feel like you can tell easily if a person is open-minded or not by bringing up a sensitive issue up.

We all should embrace change rather than discourage it. I feel like there's some point in our life where we need to change in order to be more effective and more productive with our lives. I feel like maybe we just embrace change than a lot of issues that currently happening can end.