Pain

Pain is temporary, wait it out.

I chose this picture because, it shows that even while I’m in pain or feel stressed I know that I will be fine if I wait long enough. I want to show everyone that no matter how bad their pain is, if they wait long enough that pain will go away. Even emotional pain will eventually go away, even if it seems like that pain will last forever.

Some people would say that an individual’s personality never changes, while others say personality does change. When someone says that personality doesn’t change, they are saying that people will always be the same for their whole life. The people who say that personality does change are saying that personality changes based on personal experiences and personal values and morals. The people who say that personality does change usually base their statement off of personal experiences or examples they see, or did see, sometime in their life. The people who say personality doesn’t change base their statement on either themselves or other people who don’t show any differences in personality. People will always argue about if personality can or can’t change.

In the Invisibilia podcast The Personality Myth, she goes to a prison to talk to a prisoner to see if people are able to change their personality. The inmate she talked to said that he used to be a terrible person who wouldn’t listen to people and fought a lot. But, now he says that now he tries to help people and do good things because he saw that he was a bad person. In the podcast she said, “to commit a terrible crime, there must be something wrong with you.” She said this before she talked to the inmate. After she talked to him she realized that just because someone commits a terrible crime doesn’t mean that they have to have something wrong with them. She also said, “when the stuff in your mind changes, people change.” What she meant by this is that when you look at something a different way, you also see other people differently. Before she talked to the inmate she didn’t know if it was a good idea. But, while she was talking to the inmate she realised that just because he committed a crime that doesn’t mean he is a terrible person. After she talked to him, she didn’t know what to think about the other inmates in that prison. She was trying to prove that people’s personality can change if you try hard enough and if you want to see a change in yourself.The things she said at the beginning were about how uncomfortable she felt, during the middle she said how she saw that the inmate wasn’t a bad person anymore, and at the end she talked about the confusion she felt while interviewing him.

I believe that people can change their personality because, I can’t think of anyone who hasn’t changed their personality. Even if someone only changes a little bit, they have still changed. No one can live their life without changing anything in their life, and that goes for personality as well. I know that I have changed my personality in my life because I used to only do the minimum work required to accomplish the things I need to finish. Now that I have grown up and realised that not giving my best effort I won’t go anywhere in life. I changed because I didn’t want to live my life being a lazy person who only does the amount of work required to finish something. Now I do my best on everything, even if I put more effort in than I need to put in. If you try hard enough you can also change. Sometimes the change people make isn’t good and they become a worse person because of their change, they can keep changing until they become the person they want to become. People who say that they won’t change their personality don’t realise that they will change even if they don’t want to. Sometimes the change isn’t caused by the person who changes, but by accidents that happen in their life that are out of their control, or by someone in their family or their friends that make them see something differently.