"People Change. Memories Don't."

"People Change. Memories Don't."


Identity is often thought of as ones surroundings, economic standing, race, gender, and status on the social hierarchy. Politically correct standards are put in place to which ones identity is thus measured. But, in the end we ultimately choose to harbor our identity in the friends we associate ourselves with. There goes the saying “you are only as strong as the company you keep.”Unfortunately, we tend to only see a select few qualities in each person that we want to be. It is there that we fail to identify the person they are as one entity. We set out in search of the perfect person to be, containing all the ideal qualities; honest, good, fun, loving, modest…etc. If we find people that represent such qualities, then we are more times then not going to befriend them. We cannot just search for each ideal quality and assign one to every person we meet. Instead we have to hold each person accountable for containing all the qualities we want. But, before that we must hold ourselves accountable. However humans tend not to think that way. If our friends become the puzzles pieces in our lives, each representing a different quality that we want to encompass, we then feel that if we can put them together in our brains as a whole, expecting their pieces to create a picture of ourselves. People tend to believe this is a valid and logical representation of their identity. However this is not the case. You cannot over simplify your identity. If it is over simplified then it is also incomplete.