Acharya Prashant questions the resistance to becoming a better person, asking, "What is the problem in becoming a better person? Will something go wrong if you become a little better?" He explains that a sign of progress in life is when you look at your old pictures, listen to your old recordings, or recall your past deeds and ask, "Who is this?" or "Who did all this?" This indicates that you have moved on. In contrast, if you look at your past and proudly say, "Look, this is me," and show it off, there is no benefit. Either something in the past is absolutely true, and truth has no age, so it can remain. However, our past mostly consists of things that are time-bound and false. Clinging to what has come and gone is futile. This idea makes people uncomfortable because most of what they live with is from the past. For instance, if you show an old love letter to the person you wrote it for and ask, "Who wrote this?" it would be considered nonsensical. People often take pride in not changing, boasting that their habits and friends are the same as when they were fifteen. They even take pride in doing the same things they did at that age. This is reinforced by poetry that says, "Don't you change." The speaker clarifies that he is not talking about changing but about transcending. Change means being in jail and moving from one cell to another, which is still a change. Transcendence means breaking the wall and escaping. There is a world of difference between the two. You have committed no crime if you stand up completely fresh and new. The vows of loyalty and cries of betrayal are what keep you the same person you were forty years ago. People are forced to remain the same person they were in their youth. The speaker points out the irony that people are not ashamed of being fallen but feel ashamed of having risen. They then pretend to be the same fallen person to fit in. We feel so much shame regarding the truth; if only we felt a tenth of that shame for falsehood. The man who knows a little about the truth is the one who feels the most ashamed and hides his face. All this fear stems from the single stubbornness of not wanting to change, not wanting to become better, and wanting to cling to the past, no matter what feathers of a golden bird are attached to it.