I am doing a huge research paper for college and wikipedia is not an acceptable source for information. Just throwing that out there.

Stagnant waters stink, they breed disease and continue to do so faster and faster with the longer they sit. Running waters cleanse themselves, they purify themselves with everlasting tumbling over rocks, streams, through soil and stone they push onwards and in the end, it is the water that keeps flowing, keeps moving, and keeps changing that is the purest, most desirable water.

In nature, plants and animals that do not evolve with the ever-changing environmental circumstances are those that die out. Those species who remain on their toes, aware, and ready to change with the flow of the world, are the ones who survive, grow, and prosper into the future. The seagull who flies against the wind struggles frivolously and goes nowhere, the gull who opens his wings with the wind gets both a free ride and can focus on other priorities.

The man who finds comfort in his ways, remains in his ways, forever. A cycle of comfort creates a situation where the mind, and the man, can easily slip into something I can only describe as "average-ness". A state of, neutrality in excellence. Why settle for average, when your have the capability to be extraordinary. The man who seeks change, welcomes adversity, and keeps an ever-changing goal in his sites will remain in peak shape physically, mentally, and spiritually. The cycle can only be broken by the individual, this cannot be forced. It must be welcomed, and embraced. Just as the seagull embraces direction of the wind reaps great rewards, so does the man who embraces and seeks change.

But what about having a solid, describable self? Will there be no self, no identity if one seeks only change?

Wrong. Change in this sense does not represent a deconstruction of what you are, it represents a modification, revamping, or addition to what you are. The person you are is the person you are meant to be, but the degree to which you are an excellent, extraordinary, phenomenal human being is your choice.

Namaste.
I. Smith

Says Jimmy Wales and the other proponents of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is built by individual contributors. Of course, no one is compelling you to, but it is the nice thing to do, and I would imagine that I would want to correct an error if I saw it...give little back to the world.