Why can’t good things stay the same?

Change is inevitable. Actually, it is something that we need in life — to grow, to learn, and to appreciate. It’s a truth we know but a hard pill to swallow, because sometimes, or most of the time, in this ever changing world, we long for the good things we cherish to stay the same.

These past weeks, as this school year draws to a close, this question unstoppably echoes through my mind: Why can’t good things stay the same? I wish I could linger a little longer in the familiarity of it all. I wish I could still wander in the same hallway. I wish I can still sit and eat lunch with the same people. I wish I can still learn and seek help from the same mentors. I wish I can still dance with the same passionate souls. I wish I can still go home late at night because of practice. And I wish I can still traverse the same path. But I can’t.

Funny how we yearn for things to hasten their pace, but when they’re actually ending, we find ourselves clinging to it, wanting time to stand still. And as that question lingers in my mind, I can’t help but wonder, is it really the place and environment that I’ll miss? Or is it because I have people I will leave behind? And a version of myself I will depart from? And a path I will walk away from? Will it be less difficult if I don’t have things I will bid farewell to? Will it be easier if I already know and planned from the start that I would leave those things behind and walk a new path?

I know that change can lead to greater things, but as someone really sentimental and with a really bad attachment issues, change is one of the hardest thing I can come across.

Despite that, I know that there is a beauty in the change of good things, because it makes them more precious. They won’t be as beautiful as we perceive them if they stay the same, just like our childhood that we can’t go back to, or the petals of the flower we picked suddenly being blown away by the wind, or the shooting stars that pass by fast in the night sky. It is for us to appreciate them even more and to learn to cherish what we have now because we know that someday they will change.

Good things may not stay the same, but they and the stories they’ve penned will remain in our hearts, reminding us of the beauty in this world.