“Change was incessant and change perhaps would never cease.”
Orlando, Virginia Woolf.
It has been for a long time that I watched the film entitled Eat, Pray, Love… Yesterday I preferred to watch it again to try to understand ongoing resistance / insistence of “being in the past” and also “totally closed to all kind of changement”. How can be understood the scare / fear of people against changement which is a part of life? In daily life “changement” considered as something weakness / bad sign such as most people around the world are so proud to remain “same” / “robust”. This evidence is illustrated by the discourse as:
“I am still the same and resist against all kind of changement.”
“Nobody can replace me from here.”
“I born here and I will die here.”
etc.
According to those discourse, it is evident that “changement” is perceived as weakness / being loser / lack of character…Does it really refer to weakness or being looser or lack of character….? For sure, it is necessary to highlight the crucial difference between “mutation” and changement: changement is similar to flow into the time convenient to principes like water which flows in every different form by not changing its content whereas mutation refers to become something extremely different / opposite of its original like chameleon which camouflage itself by transferring. Because being robust and same is related to the principes which can be developed with respect to every condition and “changement” permit to engender development / evolution of character as “grow up” and also as “recognition of yourself”! Drawing on the film Eat, Pray, Love, this evidence is elaborated throughout the letter / e-mail written by protagonist of the film Elizabeth Gilbert (Julia Roberts) to her boyfriend David (James Franco) as:
“Octavian Augustus built it to house his remains. When the barbarians came, they trashed it along with everything else. The great Augustus, Rome’s first true great Emperor, how could he have imagined that Rome, the whole world as far as he was concerned, would one day be in ruins? It’s one of the quietest and loneliest places in Rome. The city has grown up, around it over centuries, feels like a precious womb, like a heartache you won’t let go of…as it hurts too good. We all want things to stay the same, David. Settle for living in misery because we’re afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Then I looked around this place, at the chaos it’s endured, the way it’s been adapted, burnt, pillaged then found a way to build itself back up again and I was reassured. Maybe my life hasn’t been so chaotic, it’s just the world that is and the only real trap is getting attached to any of it.
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
Even in this eternal city, the Augusteum showed me that we must always be prepared for endless waves of transformation. Both of us deserve better than staying together because we’re afraid we’ll be destroyed if we don’t.”
Although it is hurting, it is difficult to accept unexpected ruins / disasters / subversion in the life, they incite to the changement by holding tightly principles and if it is necessary, it arouses development personal. By referring to the novel Siddhartha of Hermann Hesse, I can barely assert that changement is the journey to discover self – recognition and also in the way of everyone else all kind of obstacles or difficulty or something else play a crucial role to reach your main goal as soon as you stop to resist / complain / regret / depress towards it. Otherwise, it turns into “mutation” that means you are at stage of far away from yourself in where alienation engulf you…. As Ulrich Beck points out the crucial property of modernity by “unexpected disasters” which are impossible to calculate therefore instead of resisting against changement it would be better to find out your “own words” to break the chains of dependence…
So, what is your word?
wonderland 