Can People Change??

thats a fairly pessimistic view point not one i'd agree with.

yeah. I believe in second chances and people being able to change..I think you change without realising half the time..just through life experiences

I do think some behaivors can be changed. I guess in my mind it all depends on if it's a learned behaivor or an inherited one if there is such a thing.

This topic kind of strikes a chord with me at the moment actually because someone I know has actually reverted back to behaivor they illustrated years and years ago, just when we thought they had changed Bing Bam Boom the old monster is back and stronger than ever, so I duuno anymore.

On the other hand as Treebs has stated above, I myself have changed alot over the years. I don't exhibit alot of the behaivors that I did when I was younger I guess growing up does change us in a lot of way.

I believe in second chances. Sometimes a little too much! It takes a long time for me to really trust someone, and when I do, sometimes I let them in too far

It depends on the mistake, I think. Something extremely violent/sadistic I don't think I'd be able to forgive. If you do something that bad there's something wrong with you in the head, and I don't trust you to change because it's just the way you are.

If it's some screw up in a relationship of some sort, I do think a person is able to change. Who knows what was going on in that person's life that may have influenced him/her to do whatever they did? Maybe they grew up a bit.

I look back at just a couple of years for myself. I'm amazed at how much I've changed. I never said I would, but I have. And now I'm saying yeah, I'll continue to change in one way or another. As you learn more, as you experience more, your ideas and feelings on things change!

Some people are set in their ways, but I do believe most change with time and experiences.

Yeah, definitly.....

i belive in second chances, sure.
its how me and jon are together again.

but 3rd chances, never.

I believe in second chances. I really do. However, I don't believe in third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and so on chances. Often, people only SEEM to change. With tears in their eyes, they swear to you that they will never do (insert offense here) again, yet they do.

It's one thing to be a forgiving soul, and it's quite another to let yourself be trampled.

With the right help and will, yes.

i think they can given the chance

well i was born at age 17. gandpa always said if ya a devil son ya goin to hell. do people change. its funny when people go into court charged with a felony and they carry a bible claiming they are a changed person. they found god and read the bible. the judge then ask, name one book in the bible. the response is i dont know, a child molester is caught and jailed. give them a second chance at what. heck they go after more children. do people change. some do and should get a second chance but some say or act like they have changed. the only thing changed about them is they are sneaker

I'd say that D. and I have both changed alot over the past sixteen years. I guess the good thing is we both changed for the better and we changed together for the benefit of our marriage and our family. When we first met things were kind of wild and rocky but we've settled into our lives now and we are happy so yeah I'd say second chances can't be all bad.

I am a firm beliver in second chances for if people did not give me a second chance I would not be where I am at today... I think people do change it just takes time and just because somebody has done some time in prison don't make them a bad person cause if you learn from you mistakes you can truly change....

ofcourse people change , either for better or for wrose" ,, sometimes depends on the situation they encounter.

It all depends on their willingness I think. If a person is genuinely willing to try to change I think it's possible.

People are constantly changing. The only problem is that they almost never change into what you want them to be.