Humans are creatures of habit. It's probably something we all knew and expect, even for the fun-seeking, yolo-claiming youths with hot blood coursing through their veins.

The point is that we don't like change. We like to conform to what we know best, do what always work, and only be creative when the our default actions don't work.

So one fine day when I was shores away, my friend exclaimed that he is a excessive creature of habit that is extremely unwilling to react to change and "try something new". So here's a snippet of our conversation (From what I remembered and interpreted from my point of view, does not represent actual words being exchanged but only representative of those words.)

Friend: I'm a creature of habit luh
Me: So you don't like change?
Friend: Yeah, like to stick with my choices
Me: hmmm

.... awhile later....

Me: What about progress? Do you like progress?
-thinks for awhile-
Friend: Yeah I like progress.
Me: Then isn't progress just positive change? How can we like progress and dislike change?

And yep, that's the very question that till now I'm still thinking about. If I'm expected to answer right now, my reply would probably be the following.

Yes progress is just positive change. However, progress is determined after the effects of change is observed. Construction sites you see around the neighborhood is change, progress is the increased amount of homes available for the people. Yes we dislike change, just like how we hate the drillings in the morning, the piping on the roads when we're driving, but no, we do not despise progress. When all's said and done, we do like progress, just like all the skyscrapers we can see in our city. After all, it is the ends that justifies the means.

In fact, it is extremely contradictory to the popular belief that the process is what really matters. Especially if the ends justify the means. And the truth is we have seen that way too many times. Whether a rebellion is determined as a revolution or rebellion is through the eventual winner with the power. Whether a crusade is justified depends on the accomplishment of the objectives. Whether an unfortunate incident is determined as a misfortune or a blessing in disguise is dependent on later events we can't fathom now. Whether a drama is a tragedy or a comedy depends on its ending.

Whether change is determined as progress or otherwise depends on the final equilibrium.