"Change is inevitable." This is a famous quote by John C. Maxwell. It has been a cliche since then.

Let's see how these two concepts are defined.

In short, one cannot avoid being different from the way it was before.

Personally, I don't really like change. I like things to remain the way it is especially if I am very comfortable with it. I never want to move out of my comfort zone. Yet eventually, we actually have no choice but to embrace changes whether it may be big or small ones.

People change. That's the change I find very hard to accept. It hurts and at the same time, you cannot do anything about it because (1) you don't have any hold on that person's life and (2) you never know that reason for that change.

Friends come and friends go. Some things last and others just fade into memories.

But you know what hurts the most? It's the change of those person that was really once close and dear to you. Those who you consider one of your best friends. And then one day, you just became someone ordinary to them. Someone like every one else around them. 

I never understood the occurrence of such change. Why some people just ditch you after everything that you've shared and can even pretend like the idea of you never even existed in the first place. Don't get me wrong. I am not talking about that somebody-that-I-used-to-know kind of person in my life. I'm talking about what we call "friends".

The process of change gradually happened. It happened little by little, one by one.