To change or to remain rigid

The reasons behind peoples actions could be attributed to numerous factors, ultimately we ourselves would like to know why we think in a certain way. We constantly seek outside help to help us understand our own reasoning but in reality we are all too scared to face our own demons.
It has become fashionable and trendy to see psychologist that promise to explore the inner us and produce answers to our most burning questions, it is now a trendy privilege to have "sessions" in which people pay professionals to pretend to be their friends, costly attempts to find answers and reason with machine like humans who do nothing but let you fix yourself.

It used to be ok to just, go out for a walk, grab a beer, play some games and find a way to open up. Nowadays its more about data allowance, 1 GB can only get you a few snaps and limit the expected satisfaction from the video posted. Feelings are measured by amount of likes, reshares, retweets, comments and amount of views. We all wonder why but we get along anyways, its the direction of the motion, swimming in the opposite direction contradicts so many laws we cant afford the struggle. Our sanity and the search of stability have been absorbed by the need to embrace the unavoidable changes the advent of technology have brought to our world. It is not easy to stand there and do nothing, humans are built to adapt, our plastic brains were designed to process all kinds of information and make a decision. To embrace change or to resist it.

Its a universal fact that change is good, specially changes for better, but even regression can provide answers, just not pleasant outcomes. The question is which changes to embrace when they all seem so appealing? How to measure when there has been just about enough change? Can we compromise our identity to become the perfect adaptable beings? By whose standards and at what time considering that records last less and less time and standards are the most dynamic constants presently?

Introspection remains the most reliable source of balance, the power of influence has to be resisted by a semi-rigid personality that thrives on the instincts of self-preservation. Not all change is good, specially the one that corrupts ones identity just to program temporary scripts that require continuous updates which in turn lead to total loss of any remaining traces of self. With time and expected wear of the body, reduces the ability of being constantly updated with everything going on around the world, allegiances are made and decisions (sometimes seeming backwards) begin to govern ones direction of life. 

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