Everyone has friends and enemies. Then you live, learn, grow; but during that process you can grow apart with your friends and you realize some of the people you hated aren’t so bad after all. It’s okay, it’s all a natural course of life.
An article by the Love Discovery Institute reveals how friendships can drift apart as you age. The ways you communicate, see the world, value things can all affect your friendship as you both grow to be your own people. However, you can both be giving it your all but it could also just be the situation. It could simply just be not spending enough time together, a new job, or new romantic relationships.
“I believe it is possible for people to change but to an extent,” Addie Ehrhard (9) said.
PsychCentral published an article about the psychology of attitude, habits, and behaviors. The article states that it could be related to past traumas, fears, and other triggers that may cause a person to seem mean and upset.
Fear has a big impact on humans. It makes us strive to make whatever we fear never come true or happen. An article written by Louise Delagran of the University of Minnesota explained how that fear is one of the biggest influences of human behavior. It can naturally make us react faster or even the opposite.
Values make up your beliefs, perspective, and almost everything about you. They may change over time, but they are generally in the same subject. If your values don’t match up with someone else you may find them as enemies or your friendship will slowly fade.
“People’s values almost never change,” Megan Dull (9) said. “That makes it 10 times harder for people to change.”
All of these things make up you and determine your friendships and determine whether you think someone can change for the better. Some can. Some can’t.
