Reality is diverse, it places a person in a social system in which he lives together with other people. Such a life requires a person to enrich himself with new values. This article examines about 9 issues that speak of modern man. It shows that a person has the potential to create changes in their lives and surroundings. The specific side of this study focused on the issue of variability and alternative in human life. The broader topics covered in this article showed how change and available alternatives allow people to enrich themselves with new values. These values were, among others: the ability to organize a common space, to maintain dignity even under changing conditions, to strengthen sensitivity or to learn biographically, which allows to create a strategy for coping with the fear of uncertainty about the future, a change that makes us aware of the existence in the social model of culture, and expanding competences cultural and the need to preserve one's own tradition.