Yesterday, after a long time, I visited the swimming academy where I learnt how to swim just to see and irritate a hydrophobic friend of mine who was learning swimming for the first time. I looked around at the various people who were all geared up for their one hour of swimming and all of a sudden, I notice the two swimming instructors. Both of them were agile, strong and very professional. But that was not why I kept staring at them. They were the same instructors I had when I learnt swimming at the academy all those years ago. It stuck me then that the very famous proverb in the history of earth, "change is the only constant" means nothing, at least right at that moment when everything I saw was the exact opposite of change.
I realized then that maybe change is something that we ring about, because we are too bored or find it too monotonous to carry on with the perfect or the near perfect life that we already have. Maybe change is purely in the mind and not based on circumstances. Though everything was different about the place other than the swimming instructors, the two familiar faces made the place the most comfortable one ever.
We all look for change, we all yearn for something new but we forget that the comfort of familiarity is what finally wins over everything, the comfort that we know somebody and can depend on them no matter what.
Aishwarya Kumar
