"You've changed."

"I miss the old you."

"What happened to my best friend?"

In my first semester of college I quoted the wise Drake in one of my final papers and I'm doing the same thing here. Drake once said, "Things change, people change" and he also added some other lyrics in there that not relevant to what I'm trying to write about. Things do change and so do people. But why does that always have to be a bad thing?

Whenever someone has ever said something to me along the lines of "You've changed" they've never meant it in a good way. That is something I don't quite understand. Majority of the time your friend or whoever isn't "changing" they are growing up and that is apart of life. Why do people make change sound like such a terrible crime when it is something that should be praised. We are evolving for the better and not changing for the worst.

People as a whole are dynamic. We learn, grow, develop new interests, ideas, beliefs and opinions. But yet, people still fear the idea of change. Have you ever met up with someone you haven't seen or spoken too in a couple years? If you have, they might have said "Wow, you have really changed!" Kind of like they didn't expect it, because they were expecting you to be the same person you were in kindergarten. I don't know about any of you but I'm okay with not being the same person I was in kindergarten.

If you look back on anything from one year ago, two years ago or three years ago, nothing is exactly the same. Change is apart of life and is something that I believe is needed. Every once in awhile you need a change in scenery, people, lifestyle, the list goes on and on. So stop shaming the people who decided they needed change and did something about it.

I like change. I like new people, new surroundings, new opportunities and new challenges. Routine gets old and boring and I don't like feeling like I am stuck in a rut. So to all the people that have told me I have changed, yes I have and I am happy with where change has taken me.