“Let me be me because once I change you will miss me in me”
” Let me be me because once I change you will miss me in me”
I came across this quotation on the internet and liked it so much that I thought I’d write a small piece to expand the idea.
Why do humans have this need to change other people? A sense of ego that drives them to believe “my way” is the best way? Dictators and autocratic rulers adopt this style- sometimes for the better sometimes for the worst- leading to good governance or to anarchy.
The same holds true for teachers and parents who motivate children to inculcate values, knowledge, understanding, resilience, integrity and other positive traits because this process is a constructive step towards building a better person.
Not just children but as adults also we are actually in need of guidance to change certain bad habits we have picked up along the journey of life, and that is a good thing. Some one said- if you have to pick up habits why not pick up good ones? So to drop bad habits in favor of good ones is definitely worth the effort. No arguments there. I am all for change to remove bad habits, flaws in character and weaknesses of the body and mind.
My issue is with the need of some people to change me into another ‘person’ altogether. The problem arises when someone is forced to change their core values, their integral persona in order to fit into the grand scheme of the household or peer / work group.
We live in times when sweetness of the heart is read as gullibility, kindness is read as stupidity, affection is read as maneuverability and these are the qualities that are being referred to by the author of the above quotation.
I would so miss my daughter’s sweetness of nature, the total absence of deceit in my son’s loving gentle heart, my own fun-loving, caring nature were we have to change these in order to ‘survive’ or ‘adapt’ in this calculating, materialistic, manipulative world.
The best defense is also a quote some one wise-
“Don’t let the harsh experiences of life turn you into a person you are not”
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