on freedom and change

[telopathique]

In the cold frost of Beijing, on the outskirts of the Forbidden City, I asked my dad: "Can people change?" to which he replied: "People cannot change their character; after a certain point, at best they can only suppress or manage it. After a certain point, whatever traits they have cultivated becomes their easiest and most natural course of action

Comments

[minhthegenius]

That short-term attention span flaw might justify being obssessively neurotic each moment on the moment about not succumbing to weakness...Maybe emotional maturity to resist and eventually cast off weakness alltogether is also, itself, something to exercise like patience...

Oh gosh this entry got me eating more food for thought Tabitha!