Reading my old blog posts is like revisiting myself in the past, looking straight back into the mirror without being able to recognize the reflection. But to witness how much I've grown (hopefully in the sense of maturity) over the months and years is gracefully calming. I know that people change and it's so much easier to reiterate an obligatory statement that is self-evident from a third party's point of view but to say: "I've changed"; that puts things into a whole new perspective.

Well, I have changed. Truth be told, for good and for worst. We all mature and decay at the same time, just not the same rate. Quite honestly, which outweighs which is far beyond my grasp and for once, there is something that others can judge which I cannot refute. Nonetheless, every opinion is subjected and made objective simply by tweaking the perspective. Third party: that most convenient excuse to generalize a biased opinion.

And as always, change is an indeterminate. For good or for worst, for good and for worst, it is inexorable. Come and go, things change, sometimes perhaps to no avail. Even an equilibrium is in constant change but the results remain to be seen. But change should always be welcomed. And the most important part of changing is to embrace it.

This year has been filled with opportunities I would never have dreamed off. Some continue to take flight, others have crashed and burned against my helpless will. The dynamic nature of change makes it exciting because you never know what you're going to get. And yet inherently we are all afraid of change because we grow comfortable living in the status quo and we know that change is never without pain. Time is a necessity in adjusting to these alterations and quite rightly so, we fear that we may never be accustomed to change.

But whether we choose to change or not, the world around us continues to reshape itself and that changes us indirectly. The same entity is now existent in a different environment and culture and that in itself is change. So regardless of our receptiveness to this concept and continuum, we move along with everything else.

2012 is coming to a close (I know there's still another month or so but the end is ever so imminent) and I've grown onto this year a whole let. Amongst other things I have tried to leave behind, I am so deeply rooted to the events of the year. But change is coming, the year will pass and I have no choice but to let go.

Only to pray for a better change. Obama wanted change.

He's still in the same job (for 4 more years).

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