The poem ‘A photograph’ contains the line ‘…and the sea which appears to have changed less, washed their terribly transient feet.’ The idea conveyed is that human life is subject to change in terms of age and circumstance. A philosopher once said “nothing is permanent except change.” Write an article expressing your view on “how a human being should handle a change.”
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How A Human Being Should Handle Change
The famous saying is ‘Change is the only constant’. The poem, The Photograph is about transience of human life, death, and mysteries surroundings them.
She also makes mention of man’s transience on the sands of life. When she thinks about all this she becomes miserably quiet with the sadness of separation from her mother.
The riddle of short human life has always confounded mankind. Poets, writers, philosophers, scientists, and researchers have not been able to find any clue to it. On the other hand, Nature is far more permanent than human life. The sun, the moon, the mountains, rivers, seas, and planets appear to be eternal (But actually they are also temporary, though their temporariness lasts longer than human beings).
In such a world where everything is ephemeral and transient, man must find a strategy to tackle this transience and the pain associated with it. This is possible only by finding the Permanent. The only permanent entity in this world is God. Until man anchors his ship in God, he must learn to adapt to this change.