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From Wikipedia, "Adaptation is the change in organisms that allow them to live successfully in an environment. Adaptations enable living organisms to cope with environmental stresses and pressures. Adaptation can be structural or behavioral. Structural adaptations are special body parts of an organism that help it to survive in its natural habitat (e.g., skin colour, shape, body covering). Behavioural adaptations are special ways a particular organism behaves to survive in its natural habitat."

This is the most natural phenomenon in living organisms that forms the basis of Evolutionary Biology. But metaphorically it very much applies to us as well. Yes, aren't we living organisms too? In layman terms, adaptation can simply mean change. But there is a significant difference in the terms change and adapt. Change is so involuntary, so natural - it just happens. No one makes change happen. It just happens. Situations, circumstances change overnight with no super-force seemingly taking control of the whole process like a one-man army.


But adaptation is different. Adaptation is very much a voluntary process of a living organism. A living organism adapts itself to adjust to the changing environments. This is how it "evolves". Ditto with human beings !! Unless they adapt themselves to the changes that constantly occur around them, they won't evolve, or grow. Adapting ourselves constantly to new situations is the only way to our growth as an individual and as a civilization. Yet it can also send negative signals to us...if we allow ourselves to constantly change, where are our convictions, where is our integrity that binds us , that makes us who we are as a person??

I saw this amazing movie called "Adaptation" starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep...quite a thought-provoking movie as you may have indeed gathered by now [:)]