Why Did We Stop Believing that People Can Change?

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April 24, 2022 a project of ServiceSpace Time is something that interests me a whole lot -- past and present, and how the past appears as people change. - Alice Munro - Why Did We Stop Believing that People Can Change? "Belief in the fixity rather than the fluidity of human nature or maybe in guilt without redemption shows up everywhere -- not just in the formal legal system that decides questions of innocence, guilt and responsibility but also in the social sphere, in which we render verdicts replete with both unexamined assumptions about human nature and prejudices for and against particular kinds of people and acts." Writer Rebecca Solnit shares more in this thoughtful piece about why it matters that society learns to recognize transformation, and create processes for reparation. { read more } Be The Change What would it be like to attune to transformation in the people we interact with? If inspired to, practice with trying to see people as who they are, and not who they have been or what they might have done in the past. Notice if anything shifts in your experience of them. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Big Picture Competition: Celebrating Earth's Diversity Translating Meaning Into Life: A Taoist Parable The Gentle Art of Blessing Thich Nhat Hanh: Ten Love Letters to the Earth Advice from 100-Year-Olds On the Road with Thomas Merton NBA Mental Coach Shares 7 Ways You Can Thrive Under Pressure Peace Is Every Step: Thich Nhat Hanh's 95 Year Earthwalk DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 242,233 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More