Cycles

The old adage:

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutatur in illis
(Times change, and we change with them)

Really?

I believe that past a certain point we, in ourselves, no longer change in essence. While circumstances and manifestations may differ, at our very core, the stuff of which we are made remains immutable:

Our hopes and dreams,
Our needs and wants,
Our peeves and fears;

And this is something we need to understand and actualise so that, ironically, we can move on in our lives. This is not to say we avoid change and shirk challenge, but rather to prevent us from repeating yesterday's mistakes, or endlessly pursuing novelty or worse, el dorado, to nobody's happiness. Ultimately, this might allow us, as penned by one wise Stephen Stills, to love the one you're with.

Who's that, you ask?

Why, your good self.