I was watching something on tv last week.  It was just a dumb short segment during the news and 4 women were talking about something.  One made that statement that she was 'the way she was' and should not be expected to change.  I guess that I have probably made a similar statement myself.  But when I heard it then it struck me that it might be true in some circumstances, but should not be the answer for every situation.  In fact, we should think that changing is the preferred circumstance.  After all 'our' understanding of our purpose in life supports changing more then it does staying the same or not being able to change.  I believe that I am actually a good example of that.  When I finished my 38th push up this morning I felt satisfaction in continuing in a program that came into my mind in the month of December, 2007, and has continued as I envisioned it back then even though there were times when I wanted to quit and certainly times, especially last year, when I figured that I would cap it at 36 because I didn't believe I could continue to add as I originally thought when I conceived the idea.  Even now I wonder how high I can go, but I am not going to worry about it now.  I am just going to keep at it every day.  I won't have to face that until February comes to an end.  So I'll wait until then to think about it.  I do admit that it feels good to have accomplished this for these 3 years plus.  I figure that the number of push ups that I have done is well over 4,700 just for the first year of 2008, and for January, 2011 was 2,294.  No wonder I'm so buff!!!  I have also been able to recognize some other areas where I have been able to change.  I'm talking about good things.  I can truthfully say that I am a better person now then I was say 10 years ago or 20 years ago.  I like the idea of being able to improve.  Sure, some things don't get better and some decline as I age and I'm not real excited about actually declining as I age, but there are still plenty of areas and qualities and things that can be changed for the better.  And those things don't have an expiration date on them.