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I was friends with a girl when I was growing up who had, how shall I put this kindly- she had a problem with telling the truth. She’d tell untruths about something as simple as what she ate for lunch.
I’m not sure why she did that, I know her brother was really mean to her and that she was adopted and she felt like her parents didn’t really like her, but looking back on it I’m not sure that was true that she was adopted.
Her brother was a jerk though. But the funny thing is, she never really talked about him.
So we grow up together, go through school together and about 10 years after we graduate she is on the news.
The newsstory was about a murder trial and she was on the witness stand and the person she was testifying against was found guilty.
Until that point I thought that when people said that they could feel their blood turn to ice in their veins was a saying. Well it’s not. It’s true.
My blood turned to ice in my veins as I listened to her, and the thought I held on to as I watched her was that there was a lot of other evidence in that trial for the jury to consider. Maybe too, after she grew up she stopped with the lying and the story telling.
That is very possible, right?
I agree with Vic Crain – people can change, but it doesn’t happen very often. That being said to change you have to have a powerful motivation, and a lot of determination. Lots of people find it easier just to forget about it, and keep on being rotten.
Having successfully given up several addictions, and run around with some rotters I am speaking from experience .
People can change, but it doesn’t happen very often.