Today, after some conversations about how others influence our life and how we would like that someone would react or act differently, I end up thinking about something.

Others cannot change ourselves as much as each one of us cannot change others.

The funny is, we like to act as Gods, trying with everything that we can remember change others, with talks, arguing, acts, options, etc. But when someone tries to do that with ourselves we just came up with a: "woa, back off!"
 
So, what give us the right to do it?

Someone wise said this to me: "The world around us will change when each one of us changes! But... But it has to start with the self!"

We can be someone role model, but that is it. It is up to each one of us the change. Until we accept that... well, that it is the greatest growing... accept others as they are, and if we love them that much, give them the space and time to feel it themselves, and not push them when they are not ready to change yet...

That reminds me a butterfly... She only comes out when she is ready to live it! And then... It is gracious!