It is common to say
about someone, especially after an unfortunate occurrence, that ‘they were
never the same again.” However, this can be said about anyone at any time. As
time passes, years, months, seconds, we are not the same. Sometimes it can be
miniscule changes that we do not even notice, or sometimes they are more
dramatic. Sometimes they are dramatic, but we don’t even realize it. Sometimes
we change and when we look back at how we were before, we cringe or shake our
heads at what we see in the rear view mirror. Did we really do that? Did we
really think that? What were we thinking? We would like to go back maybe and
find a way to change things or at least erase them from our history. But there
is no going back, no system restores that can wipe out things. Hopefully we
learn; we learn not to be so impulsive, or to follow the crowd; we have learned
where our balance is and we seek not to lose it again.
