"We change for those that tell us what's cool, what's not, what's in & what's out. I guess we think just because they appear to be so sure of themselves & the world, it makes whatever they say right. But by being so passive, we have only given them a sense of authority, & suddenly our own values & morals no longer matter. Even when we say it's not us that changed but it's everything around us, we are only blinded by the fear that we did indeed push away our past, in hopes of a better status in the future. Yet those that actually put forth an effort in an attempt to advise us for the better, we reply with silent actions, silent words. We acknowledge them as fools, for we think whatever they keep trying to embed in our lives is something we are already so certain of. Then we find ourselves at rock bottom, suddenly contradicting everything we so eagerly claimed we had already known. That's the funny thing about life, we realize things aren't always as they seem, things also being people. Fools are a lot wiser than what we have given them credit for." -OTH

Indisuputable proof: A year ago, I would have said "no."

Of course they do. Look at alcoholics that never drink a drink again or drug addicts who never smoke pot again. Those people had to change for the better and I know personally of people that have changed over the course of their life.

"your day, my day, a snake will always be a snake."