Advice to a friend

: It is said that you can not step into the same river twice . what does it mean? The river is continually flowing,it is not static. The river is continually changing and evolving into a new entity every moment. In life we interact and network with so many people. Sometimes we judge a person and label him as so and so, and react to him in the same way as before. The person is also evolving and changing and not the same person. Every time he is a new person and we should be open to see them as such. However this does not mean that you completely forget their earlier basic characteristics.You should give them the benefit of the doubt by keeping an open mind. How about ourselves. We too are changing moment to moment; The same story when heard again will trigger a different meaning. This means that you cannot say that you have heard the parable before, because the person who heard it earlier is not you. It was an earlier edition of you. The new ( now ) you will get a totally different meaning