do people actually change? (repost from myspace)

december 6, 2005:

Or do you just become more or less intensely you through choices you make? Or can you not help but be true to yourself if you are the one making your choices? Is it possible to betray yourself? Or to teach yourself a lesson?

Is it wrong to expect people to keep on being the same as you remember them? Is that an insult? Do we remember people based on a package created of all their characteristics? Or are our memories of them only a shade of their characteristics we admire most? Or their characteristics we despise?

Are expectations the same as stereotypes?

By striving to be other than you are, are you being more, or less, You in the present? Is it more honest to accept yourself or to change yourself?