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RE: How was I the bad guy? (Memoir Monday #27)

Agree with everything except the "people don't change" point.
People are constantly changing, but they do for so little and so slowly that we don't see it immediately. It's a long term thing that works in many little ways. For some things we change for the better. For others we change for the worse.
But it's always little by little everyday and depends on the world that surrounds you and how you interact with it.

What it's wrong is expecting you or your partner to change in one day (or month, or even a year).

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No. You missed the point. Read the post again.

There's a reason we have this adage, "A leopard never change its skin"

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The properly bad people don't change. And the good people who are doing bad things need a hell of a lot to change. Sticking by them in the hope that someday things will get good ain't it.

Even if people change I feel like it is up to themselves and not you. You can't change anyone.

It's not that people don't change as a default. Of course change is a constant. And as a point, it's important to keep in mind since ideally, you'll be changing alongside another human, so you need to know that and not come crying about "you're not the same man I married" or whatever.

But they never change for you. And people seem to think that's how it works. At the end of the day, you gotta be able to say "if you change for you, fine, I'm happy for you. But if you go on like this, I got the strength to walk myself out of this mess". Not everyone does.