I sat down and for the first time decided to write something. I realised it'd been a while since I had an inceptional thought and I just came to the realisation that my mind was bereft of any  thoughts. When I brokedown my system of thinking, the roots of my thoughts, I realised that I've lost quite a large range of emotions which were responsible for me to see things the way I did before.

Have I changed? And if I have, is it for the good or the bad?

We all come across people who look us in the eye and say, "You have changed!" A statement quite often made and rather quite easily and to  be honest, I've used the expression just as often as everybody else.

This got me thinking. What makes us change? The flow of thoughts, emotions and perspectives are so easily influenced and so easily modified by the people we surround ourselves with. We either change for the good or the bad. But who decides if we have changed for the good or bad? Friends, parents, siblings?

The answer, to quote Michael Jackson, "The Man In The Mirror"

Have a good hard look at yourself in the mirror. See the  life the person in the reflection has been through, see the situations the person is currently in and also if he continued in this path, would he be happy meeting a "You" 10 years later. And if the answer is 'Yes', continue doing and being what you are doing.

The catch here is that you'll have a lot of people negating your way, your words and so on and this is the hard part. You cannot choose to be arrogant with them and say, "It's my life, I'll do what I want." They say it because they see a change in us which they are just letting us know. That means that they care enough to let us know it and we have to explain the circumstances, the instances, the reasons for this change and if they are worth the explanation, they will understand.
What I'm saying may sound like a contradiction to my own statements that I made earlier, but what I'm trying to say is, know your worth but also let the people who care for you be a part of it, because if humanity could ever and can ever excel, it's through love and support!