Recently, I met up with a couple of old schoolmates/friends/colleagues whom I haven’t seen for 2-3 years. It felt awkward for a bit but eventually we were talking like the old times.
What struck me then was the fact that some of them seemed to have never changed at all. The way they talk, their mannerisms all seemed the same to me. But when I thought about it, how can that be?
Change will always occur even in the smallest way. When I think about it now, there were the small changes. Like in Blanca’s case, she was the type to always be obsessed with her size of her body. At one point, to me, looking at her from the back reminded me of looking at a guy’s back. No ass, no hips..just huge tits. When I saw her recently, she looked fleshier,no, healthier. But of course the occassional "But,oh, I’m fat" would still come out of her mouth.
What about Babu? He’s probably going through some mid-life crisis or something but even he has changed. He’s said stuff that I wouldn’t normally hear from him. Meh…
As for me, I’ve always assumed that I would never change. I would always be the loud one, the vulgar one, the one that people would always say was pretty ‘wild’.
Plenty have come to me saying that I’m different from before. They say that I’ve become more laid back. They even say that I’m not as fun as before even though my sarcasm & my bitchiness is still there.
Wait, let me just say that I’m sure that I’ve probably changed. But what changes? Maybe it’s the colours in my wardrobe now? Or is it the fact that I am far too laid back about certain issues.
Over the week, I’ve had friends get pissed at me for not "being there", I’ve had colleagues pissed at me because I take things far too easy. And what am I supposed to be doing about that?
Everyone changes at one point or another. It’s just a matter of whether other people are willing to adapt to the new you.
I guess there is something that I can do but you know what, I don’t really care at the moment even though I know that some bridges will be burnt. I’ll deal with it as it comes along.