Can people change?

[Guild]

Are you exactly the same as when you were a child? Do you still have the same opinions and level of knowledge? I know some of you might, but for the most part people don't. Hence they change.

[thefuzz]

I think people change. I don't think you can make someone change. I think something has to happen to flick the switch in them.

The only thing exciting in this thread is Cat talking about "flicking switches".

[Scrumtrilescent]

Women marry men hoping to change them, men marry women hoping they never change.

Neither is ever right.

[Hawk]

agreed....again!

damn...boy has a birthday and right away he's sooooo much smarterer

[PanthaSan]

I believe people can change.

But as Cat (in her infinite wisdom and knowledge) has pointed out, they have to want to change and you can't make someone change.

For those that say people cannot change, you have blown a big hole in the whole "go to church and get saved" theory...

[Porn Shop Clerk]

I think some individuals simply lack the cognizance to change. Others are always seeking change, and some pay it no mind and change as the times do.

[Murph]

I despise change when it comes to things that directly affect me. I got this trait honest, from my granddaddy. My grandmother used to joke about the day she and my mom decided to play a prank on him and move a chair out of the den and replaced it with a table when he wasn't home. That night he asked the question 3 times why the change was made obviously making him restless. Even though the chair was one he never really used. Just his nature. My wife says I show this trait at times (even though moving stuff around the house has never bothered me too much) about other things in my life

[scpanther22]

No issues in life are black and white. There are always shades of gray...

So everyone is bisexual?

[pstall]

of course you can change.

[Davidson Deac II]

Men don't change.

Took me a long time to learn this and I am still learning it.

They just. don't. change.

You must be relatively young if you really believe this. All men and women change, but it happens at a relatively slow pace, and some change more than others.

[Davidson Deac II]

I believe people can change.

But as Cat (in her infinite wisdom and knowledge) has pointed out, they have to want to change and you can't make someone change.

IMO, all people change whether they want to or not. The problem is, if we see them on a regular basis, we don't really notice the change as much. My wife might not think I have changed over the 13 years we have been married, but thats because she is close to me and might not notice. If she were to jump in time from 1998 to now, she would likely notice a lot of changes.

Of course, not all changes are for the good.

[Doyle]

Men don't change.

Took me a long time to learn this and I am still learning it.

They just. don't. change.

Yet women refuse to believe this for some reason. Execpt you apparently.

[Scrumtrilescent]

"Everybody's so different, I haven't changed."

--Joe Walsh