Referencing our lives

I had a talk with my nephew the other day, a rather long one.  Subjects came and went as we talked, but mostly the topics ran along the vein of the idea of why and why not people do things and why and why not truth might change from time to time.  It's always amazing to younger people how the world has changed just in their lifetimes, much less over long periods of time.  I remember well the awakening that occurred to me as I went through adulthood.

Realization is a great happening in the brain and it happens over time, never all at once simply because a frame of reference takes a little time to establish and comparisons to that frame take time encounter. I have noticed, however, that some people encounter comparisons to their frames of reference and resist any change in themselves.  They become less malleable over time.  They usually stand as beacons of a day gone by, and they seem to have less and less to do with the world.  Others learn about frames of reference and learn how to compare and glean what is best for them as life changes over and over.

At one time, the word "paradigm" was popular and took over the idea of frames of reference.  But, it has diminished because it, too, is rather rigid in its meaning.  Frames of reference has more of a flow to it as if one has the need to change the frame from time to time.  Frames are not good or bad - they're just frames yielding the characteristics of points in time.

Picture albums are probably good symbols for frames of reference... people's changes are noted and tracked.  In the same way frames of reference are good symbols of our essences, and it's good to review the frames from time to time.