In order to make an effort to grow should you or would you have to change?

Answer 1

That's a logic question.

When a candle is sitting there, by itself, months pass and nothing changes but it collects a bit of dust. It remains, however, the same.
When a candle is lit, it sits there by itself, for hours - and everything changes, it melts, it falls, it pours, and eventually turns off. It changes.

Now, when growing, the same happens.

A plant at birth is not the same plant before bloom or after death. It changes. For the plant to grow, it had to change. Every winter it dies, and grows again, and it may grow slightly different the following year, and so on. It never stops trying to find perfection - and it probably never will.

Ask yourself this: would you rather be a rose that is at full bloom, or is trying to bloom? If you could stop time at the very moment, which one would you pick?

If you said full bloom: everyone will think your wonderful, however your static. You're never changing. You will remain static and "wonderful to others." - Unfortunately, you know what's in your mind right? As soon as time starts, you begin to die. You're no longer wonderful. Everyone will stop looking at you because you will be withering, dying.

If you said about to bloom: everyone will think how great you're doing, what potential you have, how you're always doing something for yourself. You're constantly changing, attempting to reach full bloom. Everyone will be amazed at how you're "always facing challenges" and "always overcoming them." As soon as time starts, you shoot forward to full bloom.

The metaphor is this: the longer you change, the greater you'll be. If you stop changing to remain were you're at, you're done, and that's the greatest you'll ever be.

Answer 2

Yes, I know I would have to make a few adjustments. I mean, if I stayed the same, I would be basically staying at the same maturity level and with the same wisdom I now have, I want to be wiser, so a wise person doesn't have to learn from their own mistakes, they learn from others' lives, and make changes to their lives accordingly so that is 1 thing that I would have to keep doing to achieve personal growth. Without growth and change for the better, one can end up in life where one does NOT want to be.

Answer 3

In order for a person to grow they have to become more like a child again, trusting, having faith and be full of wonder. That is a big change for most of us.