Some Things Never Change

You ever have one of those frustrating days? Where so many things just...frustrate you? And you feel the need to reach to an overused phrase to describe how you feel?

"Some things never change."

I tried google-ing that phrase and all sorts of things came up. Song lyrics, quotes, politics, but my favorite by far was this (I found it posted on a random thread):

Boy meets girl.

Girl likes boy.

Parents don't approve.

Some things never change.

-William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet


But that's another topic for another posted.

When I initially thought of the phrase "some things never change", I thought of using it as a way to express, well, my frustration.

People will always act in certain ways in accordance with their personalities, no matter how much you hope they might change. Some people will just always be insensitive jerks and have no clue. I think you can see where I'm going with this. I could list off a million things that never seem to change, and that's what I started to do. When I sat down to write this, I was ready and armed with a list of things that have never changed.

They were primarily negative, of course.

But then something really minor happened on Facebook and it got me thinking: why did I decide that it's a bad thing that some things never change? There are plenty of things that don't change, and I'm grateful that they don't change.

The biggest thing would be God. He doesn't change. He will always love me. Even when everyone else is an insensitive jerk, He's still there. He still loves me when I don't respond well to the insensitive jerks in my life. He still loves me when I'm the one being an insensitive jerk.

Maybe it's time that I start to rely on the good things that never change than expecting the bad things to never change.