You Can't Change the Changeless

The Bhagavad-Gita held this one message that I choose to reflect on now. This is that you cannot change the changeless, ones who do not wish to change themselves. I’ve danced around this some, tried to bend it enough to contour how I want it to fit, but breaking all chances of change in the end through frustration. Nothing will change with heavy interference; it makes the act forced and thereby un-desirable. It’s so easy though, to get wrapped up in this fancy of change, in being the enabler, the changer. However change is a tricky word to be bandied about nowadays, it has a connotation of destruction and opposition to the social norm. Change, in my opinion, is best when subtle, for when it is rapid you are given little room to sufficiently react and comprehend what has happened, what has changed. Sudden change leaves us shanghaied and ill prepared, it throws us of. Now if we feel this way why would we force someone to rapidly change. Sure it might be best to kick a bad habit, but cold-turkey might not be the best concept to implore to make that happen. Improvement of a person is the same way; they have to want to change themselves (for themselves). This is hard to grasp and we all want to be the one to change it (hah, change). On the other hand, I cannot think of who might fit the category of changeless, infinitely not improving or getting worse. It seems a harsh reality to have no change. To not want to improve, get up when you’re down, and make something of yourself. Who’s to say we have to change, who’s to say we don’t. Change can be measured in a myriad of ways.