defining moments

As we move from complicated to incomprehensible, I find myself having a hard time to keep track of things. I realise more and more just how much everything and everyone around me is changing. Of course this was bound to happen, but I never realised it was already ´happening´, if you know what I'm sayin'. We're growing up, moving from age box to age box, we develop dreams and desires and (slowly) realise things only get more complicated every single day. 

Most of you might know how hard it is for me to let go of people. We lose friends, we gain friends, we reconnect with old friends. So basically, our social environment tends to change a lot. I've never been good at saying goodbye to people. It's probably one of those things I'll never get used to. Unfortunately, it always seems inevitable. 

However, besides the fact that I find it somewhat difficult to let go of the past, I also enjoy these developments. The older we get, the more we will experience, the more we will learn. Knowledge is one of the things I find rather important. And when I say knowledge, I am talking about life experiences that teach you a valuable lesson. I've always believed everything happens for a reason. The best and worst experiences we have to go through are there for us to learn something. My definition of maturity would probably be related to your level of life experience and your ability to empathise.

One thing I, sometimes, do find disturbing, is how we try to examine everything and everyone more and more. Sure, psychology is very interesting and the human mind and/or psyche is so complex, how could nosy people possibly resist examining it? I do think there should be some sort of limit though, because besides my curiosity, I personally find the mysteries in life rather exciting. But well, we all try to define certain situations and moments. It's hard not to look for possible "reasons" for one's actions and such, and it is ever harder to live with the fact that you might never find out.

I just don't think it's possible to define everything. In daily life, it is probably one of the things that bugs me most. Some people tend to define an individual by their gender, what they look like or what they stand for. And those are just a few possibilities, the list is endless. I'm not saying these people are discriminating, but more that it, sometimes, seems hard for them to look beyond physical appearance (or anything else for that matter), and see the individual behind it. I think every individual has their own power, but that it takes time to find and develop that power.
(I am speaking in general here, so please do not feel offended.)

"Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal." - Anatole France (Jacques Anatole François Thibault)