We are born and we die. But in between there is opportunity. That opportunity is for happiness and one of the ingredients in happiness is growth.
Growth, or non-growth, is so pervasive in our society that one of the tenets of novel writing is that the characters must grow or change in some visible manner. One grows from a boy to man, another one grows from wicked to good, one grows from good to evil. The hero is flawed but his flaws are lessened or overcome as the story proceeds.
But this not only the stuff of fiction. It is also the material of real life. If one is not growing in this life, then one is dying. Such is the way of the world and the nature of that world. Would you be happy? Then you must grow.
