Agreed

BUT you can influence someone to change by being the best version of YOU that you can be (this is my own personal quote)

Nope. Doesn’t help. “Live the example” only works for the person living the example. Does nothing whatsoever to change the person you believe needs to change.

My solution: if there are people that I believe need to change, and they do not, they exit my life. If I cannot make them exit, I minimize them. There are too many people in the world who, as they are, I find perfectly acceptable for me to waste my time trying to transform someone who is NOT acceptable to me as they are into someone acceptable to me. Attempting to transform that person only makes that person AND myself less happy.

And I also like your method as well —- how much money has been lost trying to help addicts and homeless people and depressed people —- far too much.

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That's beautiful ❤️

I’ll never be ready sadly 😂 though I will screenshot it and post it to where my family can casually look at it and stop pestering me

I tried changing people for about 25 years until I finally gave up, and now I agree with every single word of this absolutely truthful saying.