Consistent...

Today. Changed. My. Life.

So cliche...but so true!

Today, I realized for certainty that I am so scared to change how I view something because of how I have viewed that something in the past. And since I let people know how I viewed it then, I am afraid of changing it now because they might call me a hypocrite....because I've changed my view.

We, as humans, have this huge bond with consistency. We thrive on it. We throw everything away (in some cases our new beliefs) because of it.

But that is sad. As humans, we also have new ideas and beliefs everyday. But a lot get discarded because we don't want our consistency rating with other people ruined and us have to fear getting called a hypocrite.

I have also realized that this doesn't make me a hypocrite. It makes me an average human being who simply has changed her mind.

Emerson said something along the lines of, "What if you contradict your self? What then?" He means, so what if your ideas are different than what they were yesterday? So what that people might call you a hypocrite? What is that going to hurt?

Now, it is hard. It is hard to change what you've told everyone you thought was the right thing to say-only to find out today that you shouldn' t have opened your mouth.

My consistency has been ruined. I now think a vastly different way regarding a particular issue, and I imagine some people won't let me get away without calling me a hypocrite.

But if everybody only believed what they've always believed, where would vitality be?

Now, I'm not talking drastic. I am speaking in the particulars. (Drastic would be something like changing religion. Particular means there is a certain thing on which my opinion has changed.)

I know this blog is a little incomplete, but it gives a lot to think about.

Are you consistent?