some people don’t change and it’s okay.

4 min readMar 12, 2025

Life is like a movie where they lead you to so many kind of challenges. It is a real story when they open some windows to you that filled with many kinds of things that will also changed you as a person who merely live the life as its supposed to be. Then, there’s piece of you who might changing by the time you knew, realized, and learned something from it.

Some people might choose to changes by themselves or nature choose them to changes by the time they learned something. We obviously can’t forced the way how people tryin to change themselves or not. It happened to me when I decided to met up with couples of friends who after several months or even years I didn’t meet up with.

Indeed, there’s actually some parts of them that really 'new' and I bet its part of human changing, but still I found they really still had some pieces that I used to found in them back then. Like, they actually didn’t change at all. They didn’t change entirely as a person. They are still a friend of mine or person I used to know in the past and as same as today.

Like, no matter how long we didn’t hangout together, they’re still the same for me. They’re still being the same person that I used to get know for the first time I met them. That it makes me thinking how people merely don’t change and we still recognized them as the person who we used to know.

We still knew them as people who we used to talk about school assignments, love, relationships, etc. And it might sounds sentimental knowing the way how they are suddenly turned to be the person who we are talking bout adult things, jobs, life carrier, and also life achievements now. The fact that time flies too fast and we’re growing old together was really unbelievable.

Well, at some kinds of moment you think that they might already changed some parts of them that they used to have, indeed. They’ve might had changed so far, but you still can’t resist that they aren’t fully changing. Sometimes, its good to know that people aren’t changing. Just because they’re still the same kind person that we used to know. Notice that people can also changed much better from the person they used to, yet they can changed worst than they used to. Perhaps, it depends on how nature already treated them to changes as a human being.

No matter what happens, no matter how they changed or not, no matter how life or even nature treated them, aren’t we should be glad that they are still the same person we used to know? It’s sounds astonishing that you’re growing up with the same people who you knew since your childhood, elementary school, junior high school, or even high school friends. Knowing that you are still part of them and they are still part of you. Knowing how they truly witnessing your life journey indirectly and how your life is changing in times.

Here’s an open letter to some friends of mine who I used to be close with or even no longer anymore, thank you for being one of people who might took some parts in my life journey that also shaped me who I am today. I won’t forget them and perhaps I still remember them in my heart and mind as people who ever coloured my life back then. Even though time is changing and we’re no longer close like back then, thank you for passing through in my life. You’re forever stay in my heart.

And this to my dearest friends, especially the kindest people I’ve ever known. That I still have until this day and perhaps witnessing some parts of me that changed. Thank you for staying as the same person I used to know back then. Thank you for not changing who you are and being the same person who I can rely on. Thank you for understanding me as a human being who merely made mistakes or imperfect. Thank you for still sticking around with me until this moment. I’d gave all my heart and soul if I could just to say how much thankful I am to have you all in my life.

To all my friends n my special people in my life, you really know how much I adore and love you more than anything. Y’all matters to me.

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ailsya avriel
ailsya avriel

Written by ailsya avriel

sometimes i write for people, sometimes i write for myself. reach me on ig @ailsyaavriel ^^

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