A Few Coins
Change is constant. There is nothing is the universe that does not change every millisecond throughout their existence. If we know this, that change is constant throughout everything in the known universe, then yes, people can change. We all know that this answer isn't satisfying because it's too ambiguous and generalized. What we're talking about here is if people can change who have done something wrong to you or are just terrible people in your opinion. We ask this question when we want to like someone but they have wronged us in some way. Cheated, stole, beaten, left, you name it. It's happened and now your feelings say you love that person still, but your mind says to forget them. Then comes the problem of becoming the change you want to see in them, the change you want them to have for you, so they can appreciate you more and give you all of their attention. What usually ends up happening is that they never change, because we let them continue to be what we don't enjoy. We don't leave when we should. We try to pretend everything will be better tomorrow and today is only a bad dream. This is a ploy to make that person into something they may never be, and what does say about us? We've changed, and have become something we'd fight against.