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Listening to: James Morrison - Undiscovered; "I’m not lost, not lost - just undiscovered"

                                        Do People Ever Change?
                         Musings by Felicia Paulraj inspired by severe PMS

People don’t change. A saying I believe to a certain extent may be true - but is it? Using familiar sayings like that one I have come up with the following. (Note: Readers beware.)

Maturity is a tricky thing. Growing Up is Inevitable; Growing Old is Optional, someone once said. So how come so many people can still grow older and still remain so bloody childish? Is that because People Don’t Change? So what about communities like Alcoholics Annonymous whose motto is to take things One Day at a Time? Isn’t that to change a person’s alcoholic behaviour? How is that possible if People Don’t Change?

Take the one about karma - What Goes Around Comes Around. When mean people (i.e. Meanies) treat you like shit is that because you’re only getting what you deserve? Then what about What Doesn’t Kill You Only Makes You Stronger? Could it be possible that we meet such nasty people not because of anything we have done but because we need to meet people like this in order to prepare us for worse people and to hone our public relations skills and mature our inner strength?

But hang on - how can we become Stronger after such an ordeal when People (supposedly) Don’t Change?

Am I making any sense? Is it worrisome that I make perfect sense to myself?

I don’t know if people change, be it for the better or for good. I believe in starting over and new beginnings. I believe in second chances. But I am beginning to believe that there is small minority of people who when they find themselves in familiar environments, begin to revert back to being the person they were accustomed to being in those conditions. So..is that why former alcoholics are advised to stay away from pubs/bars - environments that create opportunities to Fall Off the Wagon because People Never Change?

Bullies, gossips, kleptos - do they ever change; do they need power, gossip and matches to fuel them on?

Therefore in essence, is change non-existent, determined just by which conditions prevail?

Sigh..now I’m ranting. So what - tis my blog. Gotta go back and join the 6 way conversation on MSN where everyone is wondering who said "lipu" first..haha..such tangled webs we weave…… Xmas is in 6 days..woohoooooo

Adios. 

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