It's hard to notice growth as it's a continuous process

Growth is a continuous process. Since the time of coming into the world, we start to grow little by little. As it’s a continuous process, understanding growth is hard to notice in a short time. We can’t feel the difference between today and yesterday in case of growth because the change is too little to notice. Growth can be physical and mental. Although it’s hard to understand physical growth within a short time, it can be noticed after a certain time. In the case of mental growth, it’s more difficult to understand, as mental growth isn’t visible to us like physical growth.

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I came to this beautiful world 27 years ago, and during that time physical growth was visible, and I think it’s not worthy to mention because everyone can understand it and it’s the same for everyone, but mental growth is quite interesting, and it’s the thing that makes an individual unique. I don’t consider myself a smart person having a super-fast brain, but I also have grown a lot compared to the earlier days. Obviously, I am not going to compare myself with my childhood to understand growth, because at that time, our understanding about life was very little. I believe that at least one should have a basic understanding about life before comparing growth to the better version.

Life is a journey where one person makes countless mistakes, wrong judgments, and wrong decisions. Such kinds of things are normal, but with time we learn from mistakes and correct them, make the right judgment, and make the right decisions. All of those are part of growth. There are many incidents that made me realize I have grown up a lot, but I am going to mention the significant growth.

From my childhood I was an introvert, and I used to talk less with others. I didn’t talk to others unless it was necessary. It says that silence is the best answer, and I used to believe it. To be honest, I think staying silent all the time is a weakness, and those people who can’t speak their mind, when necessary, try to cover up with a statement that is not right. I used to be like that; such a thing helped me to maintain peace for a longer period in any kind of situation.

When I was in class XII, I stayed at one of my distant relatives’ houses for my study purpose. I was there for 5 years, and they were quite good in the beginning, but later, for unknown reasons, their behavior changed a lot. Their behavior was quite irritating to me, but I had a super cool mind and the power of staying silent. I could understand that they tried to humiliate me indirectly in many ways, and I was silent, thinking that they would be tired if they didn’t get any response. As I was silent, I used to observe their actions quite well, and based on their actions, I could predict what they were going to say or do. Even if I were silent, they didn’t change, and so I changed the strategy. I started to find logic to defend myself, and the good thing was those logics were from their own statement. So, in that case, it was hard for them to defend themselves, as those logics were from their own statement.

You must be thinking it was the growth. Right? Indeed, it was the growth, but the significant growth was during the time I understood that my ability to read others minds was quite good, and I could handle people with mind games pretty well. I didn’t know about it earlier, but I understood my growth at that time. It was a significant growth, and it was indeed continuous, but I realized it later.