change: coz i love single worded headings :P

               All the world around me is talking about change, the change in the government being one, the change in lifestyle, the change of the economy. Talk to your grandparents, and they tell you about the yonder years about how beautiful it was in its simplicity, how it has all changed. But isn't it weird that although all of us change, some even advocate it to others, no one essentially wants to? I look at my friends, look at my parents, look at human being as a whole, and everyone wants to return to a time in the past. It actually got me wondering, do we all remember the past because we can relive it, or can it be that the fast moving society, the evolving individuals just want and seek the simple joy of life itself and nothing more? Even the best seller in the world changed, from the old testament to the new.

                 Lets look at the change that has come about in my state. As a resident of West Bengal, I have been a witness to something that is being called a new history by some, the media going crazy trying to predict the effects of the change, people just talking about the change that the state has undergone and the achievement. But when we look at it closely, is it really a change? The green taking over, the red dying out, but after 34 years, has any one stopped to ask, what exactly is the change? Is it the transformation of the CPI (M) from a communist party to one more based in accommodative politics and turning towards the corporate world for support, in other words changing into its original enemy? Or is it the state helping a lady come to power with overwhelming support, who voices the ideas, the belief that was once upheld so high by her biggest nemesis CPI (M) at its initial years? I wonder if in 34 years we will witness another change, where the green will be supportive of the capitalist belief. Today, the green symbolizes the left more strongly than any other party, which then makes one question, is one voting for change or are we just supporting an ideology so lost in the history of the state, that it needs a new voice, a new colour to come back?

                        In my personal life too, the concept of change seems to disturb me. The first ofcourse that the past always seems better than the present, and that when the present becomes the past, we feel nostalgic bout that too! But more importantly, it is the fact that one expects the person around to never change, although we ourselves keep changing. I don't even know when I go crazy myself. The other day I screamed at my mom, telling her that she has become so different, and her reaction was nothing, just a silent stare, that made me pause and think. She was different of course, but nothing better could be said of me, in fact I was much worse than she can ever get, which freaked me out. I mean I didn't even notice the change, but there it was, staring me in the face. We want our parents to still pamper us, bear with us, while also expecting them to treat us like adults, and to top it all of, we blame them for the change! And we do it with everyone, which is why I wonder, is change all that its made out to be? Aren't we all just looking to be the same, for the simpler days when the world wasn't scary?
                   I dont think we are, I believe we just like to remember those days to make ourselves realize what we were. where we came from, and hope what we will be. Because no matter how much we change, we all remain the same, same name, same thoughts, same beliefs and if we are very very lucky, the same loved ones!