Face the Change

I am trying to look at your face. Not to see if i like you, but to see if I like whats on your face.

Keith aka NanoflameN reminds me of one of the quotes I once sported on my instant messenger, "Changing the Face won't solve anything. Facing the Change solves everything." It is, indeed, an awe-inspiring relevant quote to our daily lives. Facing the Change tells us to face changes as how we should be facing them, and not to quiver and shiver in the face of adversities. He tells me he wants to face the change. I tell him to change his face :p

To fully understand the significance of this quote, for the most part, we need to explore the meaning of two important words: "Change" and "Face". Note that 'Ing' is added in the front and later part, meaning the action is currently taking place in retrospect.

"Changing the Face won't solve anything", simply put, is trying to carry across the impression that you can do whatever you want to your face, you can opt for plastic surgery, you can go on a course for removal-acne, you can patch an ugly spot, a birthmark or a mole. It won't change a thing. The only thing it will change is how your face looks like, and that doesn't mean you've changed in any particular way other than how you might look like. Even so, your contemporaries or elders may not realise any significance difference that has taken place in you, other than your face.

"Facing the change solves everything" is the direct opposite of what i've tried to explain to you earlier. This part of the quote tells you to face changes, to welcome them. Treat them as something that is part and parcel of life, for anything and everything in life can change. Today you might be you, tomorrow you might not be you. To accentuate, changes are not, in the common sense, bad. They evoke a sense of displeasure, which is also the initial reason why people shun them away. But they in all propriety are beneficial for growth; without change there can be no improvements. Aren't the technological improvements of today's modern 21st century a result of change? There, I have just proved my point that changes are essential to individual, societal and global growth.

To put things a little into perspective, I want you, my loyal reader, from today onwards to Face the Change. Not to run from it, but to face it. And in this valuable process you might discover you actually possess the ability to mould how you want others to perceive you in a different light. Because it is not the face on us that matters, but rather the face of our hearts that ultimately will shine through many occasions.

Change is you, you are the change. It is up to you to create them. No changes can take place without you wanting to change. Like they say, "Be the change you want to see in yourself in the future."

Face is something so literal that it
cannot be taken at face value. A face only shows external features, it doesn't
show you anything about external personalities. A face can be illuminated,
otherwise unreal. A mask can cover that face, which makes the face
amok and not a face. That mask stares at you, the face stares through it. You are staring at two different faces. You never know whose face to look at now.