Change and the reason behind it....

Many people I meet want me to change. They say my views are not practical, they are not realistic and certainly they do not meet the need of the hour. I have, as it has implied already, a different take on things around me. The words practical & realistic mean differently for me. I never understand what people call as practical and realistic approach. How can giving up my values, my character and my principles to gain something materialistic be practical when I can achieve that by following a different path but keeping my inner-self intact, keeping my values intact. May be a bit delayed but still within reach. What is practical? For me everything that is possible to do is practical. A thing that is doable , I believe I can do that and what is doable is practical.I work, I work hard. I aim high, and I plan to achieve that too. I work on executing that plan as well. All that I do differently is having a people-centric approach. Feelings, promises, loyalty, love, integrity, these things mean more to me than achieving some materialistic objective. I believe in values that I got from my family, from the learned men who gave the society its intellectuality. I take things on their absolute value. I weigh them as if they are right things to do in an absolute environment or not? Not in a perspective, not in any comparison. Cheating somebody is wrong in an absolute environment, not being loyal is wrong in absolute environment, losing my integrity is bad whatever be the reasons behind it and so I'll consider them wrong irrespective of the conditions. When I resigned from AIESEC, I didn't leave with a cordial relationship with the organization, but that does not stop me from doing anything that can help the organization grow. So why would I change my values if somebody did something of his or her choice that was against or in favour of me? I am not saying I am a saint. All I am saying is that I do not change because the world does something or does not. I'm not against change either. It is inevitable, but it should be for progress. Progress of the society, progress of the people, progress of the individual at intellectual level. Change for the sake of change, at the cost of values, at the cost of integrity should not be acceptable and there I differ from today's world. A world which is hypocrite. Which taught me one thing and asks me to do the opposite. I'll keep my integrity, my sanity, my loyalty, my honour and I'll grow too, achieve too without changing myself. If I commit to something. I'll honour it, whatever be the implications. And that this world can not take away from me, whether it thinks that as practical or not.