Things are not what they seem; or to be more accurate, they are not only what they seem, but very much else besides.- Aldous Huxley

The body is a focused form of energy. Within 7-8 years, your body will not be the body you currently reside in. Every single cell will have been replaced. You will be new. There's no switchover. You don't step out of the old you into the new you. Just a gradual change that constantly happens without our help. Like many other aspects of life, we have no control over this.
Our bodies change, or physical appearance change, but some of us refuse to allow our minds to change. Our outdated thoughts are not replaced, but often reinforced by experiences, by culture or religion, or by simple stubbornness. Knowledge and experience, opinions, thoughts.. these things are infinite. We can't even comprehend infinity. As humans we isolate very little of our brain power, we focus on a very very minuscule pattern of life, and we live it with fervor (or with dislike or with indifference). Yet we have the capacity to change our focus, and that, our desire for change, is what separates us from other animals. Why, then, do some people not desire change? Is it a form of self harm to stay in patterns that are familiar at the cost of new experiences (or thoughts or emotions), or is it just our natural instinct as animals?

Basically what I've been wondering is... are some people just... boring?
Sometimes I think maybe whoever said it was on to something with the theory that there are only a handful of 'real' people on earth at any given time, and the rest are just 'extras'. It make sense, really. You look around and you see people who work their lives as gas station attendants, as ticket takers, as crowds.
Do they desire change?
Are they thinking thoughts that haven't been thought before?
Are they just robots?
Are they empty shells of unoriginality, copies of copies of other people, patched together from their thoughts and feelings, opinions, beliefs?
Or do they, too have the capacity for change, but fail to work for it?
Do they have the will hidden somewhere in their genetic code to break out of their uneventful patterns?
Am I a person like this? Are you? Are we all?

I don't know. Nobody does. How can we. Most people are in pursuit of happiness, satisfaction, knowledge. Being aware of everything we think, all the time would be too distracting in that pursuit.


Always endeavor to associate yourself with people in pursuit of the truth. -whoever