Theseus

Things need to change, and they change every day.

You may know a person — a friend or maybe yourself — that changed from water to wine on the last years of their life. Now they are kinder, they are prettier, they are smarter, but, some of the ghosts of their past are still going after them and not letting them leave their old life behind.

Let me use an acient story of the greek mythology to illustrate my thought. There was a man called Theseus. We was a warrior, and went to sail the seas with a ship and a tripulation.

After winning countless wars, Theseus always stopped at an outpost and changed the broken parts of his ship. After years sailing, Theseus finally went home, but, no one recognized his ship. But… why? It was the same ship as they went in, but now no one remembers of how the ship was before the sailing, it was said that the ship looked like a new one.

So… is the ship the same after changing it parts, or it is still the same?

This is a very important question that needs to be answering following a line of thought:

• What constitutes change?
• Changing something is embracing the new one or just maintaining the old version?
• When you erase a word written by pencil and rewrite it then, despite that the text is the same, that is the same word or a new one?

Change is a obligatory process of each life. It does not matter how small can a thing be, it needs to have a start and a end. And, between those two, there’s change.

I like to think of change as an opportunity to embrace something new, just like a bump that pushes you out of your context zone. Yes, change can be hurtful, change can be bad, change can make everything worse, but, when they become good, it was thanks to a change.

Every little thing that happens in your life, is a new beggining that does not need a bad ending.