TED ALİAĞA COLLEGE / 11-A
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On Transmutation and Permutation
Koray Kayra GÜR ‣
Transformation has always been perpetual and unchanging, despite being the incarnation of impermanence and change. Through time there has never been anything that has not changed, nor will there ever be. This is most apparent for us in human history.
Since the dawn of mankind, we have been the ambassadors of transformation on this planet.
Humans took whatever was around them, destroyed what it once was so it could become what it will be. Change naturally is destructive and creative but one mustn’ t oppose one part of it and not the other. It is an immense horror, things becoming unfamiliar yet also a great joy. The death of one thing is the birth of another and this is what change is and is why we fear it, we cannot tolerate losing what we have, we know, we are; yet we want these to grow and flourish. These are the most rewarding of human experiences, yet they come from change, the very same change that is the most paramount of terrors.
The fear of change, the attempt to hold the present tightly and never let it go, has slowed progress severely. Galileo was oppressed by the church because his model of the universe challenged the old view. And the church wouldn’ t change its mind. This is the cost of this stubbornness. At the same time, it was the exhilarating idea of change, that we can learn new things about the universe that fueled Galileo.
Change is the means, the process and the end to all human endeavors. While we perhaps may never fully abolish our instinctual fear of change, knowing the fact that it is the essence of nature, truly believing it will help us make better decisions now. Humanity has had enough experience to make that statement.