How greatly do we change in the passage of time between encounters with another? The answer is as infinite as span of time, spread of life experience and course.
Sometimes, we change not at all; others—we are completely different.
Where in the spectrum do we, ourselves, fall; and how do we ever know of another if we do not ask and seek to understand—not for comparison between new and old, but simply to learn another and of the experiences that shape them into who they are today and who it is they make movement to become?
How are we changed by relationships—those that hold, those that break? How are we changed by children—age and stage and how their state affects our own as we seek to aid in their growth and experience? How are we changed by professions, our everyday, encounters with others, hopes, dreams, ambitions, successes, and perceived failings?
Are we rewritten daily? To what underlying constants do our lives and selves hold true?
How do we ask and discern this of ourselves? How do we ask and learn this of another?
We all have our answer? What is yours? How do I ask to learn?