There is that sketch on one of my favourite TV shows, featuring a Russian baby-sitter looking after an infant. The parents get back home and ask him questions about what was happening; one of the inquiries is: Did you change him? And the huge Russian guy with a curious accent is like: No, it's the same baby.
Well, this short intro was to draw your attention to an allegory between this here misunderstanding and the forthcoming one, related to the phrase change one's mind. Changing one's mind should be prohibited for the sake of the word pun introduced, if not for other salient reasons you may be coming up with at the very moment. Mind change? No, thanks. Mind swap? Give me a break. Or don't. I'd like my bones to remain intact. And the mind should stay the same.
As I have downplayed and mocked a phrase, I ought to propose a worthy replacement to maintain my alleged objectivity. Well, make up one's mind can successfully take place of its offending predecessor. It's always better to imagine and create than to give up and exchange your precious brainbaby maker for one of unknown or dubious quality.
And besides, if you make it up, it's not the same mind anymore. I don't.. mind now. How funny.
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