Change of one's character

Do you think it is possible?I think it is. Can you change yours? People choose comfort zone instead of working on themselves (me first)...

Yes.

First, time changes everyone, so how your body changes, you change as well. You can consciously do some changes too, to certain extend. That's allowed thanks to evolved adaptability. How much one can change, I cannot tell, it's individual...

yes its possible. ive changed and have become a better man since i was younger. always adapt and grow, learn and change.

Yes, it’s possible. I’ve changed quite a lot since I started my path, and it didn’t happen by accident. The key is that you have to actually want the change, and then back it up with consistent action.

You don’t become a completely different person, you become a more deliberate, better aligned version of yourself. Your core stays, but your habits, reactions, fears, and other things can shift massively if you keep working at them.

Yes, in fact daily practice of magic changed me tremendously. Magic made me more confident, charismatic (in my own introvert way) and open minded. It expanded my interests, improved motivation, sharpened my mind. I became much more optimistic and overall positive.

Yes. All things are bound to change with time and environment, including ourselves. That is how it should be. Comfort leads to stagnation which leads to nothing ever changing. Go in the direction of discomfort for the real change.

I think you have a certain predisposition to a specific character (a sort of "innate" one, the one you tend to while absentminded or not interacting with others), but you can actively decide to work against it, and develop another one.

I had a character as a child, which is not actually my innate one (I developed it mostly because it was expected from me, mostly in a benign way, and culture shapes people much more than we think). I lost it/reverted to my innate one while in high school (half because I stopped caring), but then, when I was finally out of survival mode, I developed another one as an adult (again, half because I cared again, half because I genuinely wanted to be a better person).

We can contain multitudes, and we can continue to reinvent ourselves

Yes. A lot of occult work, especially that drawing from Jung, requires changes in character in particular.

Any occult practice, if taken seriously, is going to require character changes in you (especially LHP/black magick).

I'm completely different than the person I was 6 years ago.

Primal said:

Do you think it is possible?I think it is. Can you change yours? People choose comfort zone instead of working on themselves (me first)...

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I don't think I change or ever truly will.

I do believe that I am complete, however, as time passes, I understand myself, my identity and the world better, and through that, I can make different decisions, allow to 'produce' other thoughts than before and execute different actions. It may appear like a change, but on the large scale, I was always been like this, no matter what I do.

At the end of the day, the 'lazy me' who'd chose comfort zone (just to follow your example), and the one who chose the other way is the same character, just a different approach, a different whim, and a different step. I can be both at any moment, it's a choice, both are me.

An another, more radical example of my own.
I have a very sadistic nature, with terribly dark humour and zero mercy or pity towards any life, and little to no affection what-so-ever How is it, that in one moment, I endulge in this grim nature that's mine and I embraced it wholly, and then, in the other, I help, guide, protect, save people and animals, and sensed to have a very maternal energy, which makes people to open up and receive care and safety.

Is this a different character?
For a long while I thought, I change back and forth.
I was not.

I just had to learn, it is not a change.

The two is the same 'me', and I am just far more complex, and can't be black and white, like I'm made to believe. I was, for a while, desperate to find my identity and cling to it, but then I learned that I am simply complex, just like nature itself - sometimes giving life, sometimes mass destroying it.

If I'd be an alcoholic, it'd be a part of my character. If I'd be able to put it down, would I change? No. Just the decisions I made. It's the same me.

Same me', different face. Differenc choices. Different decisions.
I just explore myself on the way, and embrace every particle, and make decisions.
My decisions will show a part of me, but never 'the whole' me, because it's simply not possible to show yourself in one single action, nor to always remain on that one single track, no one does.

Like a huge-huge palette. The palette is the same, it will never change, but which colours you use from it, it can be chosen, and then, projected into your artwork, which is your life. But the palette is the same, and the colours on it will never vanish, they just lay there, ready to be used again. Some are more often, some are less often.

Time did not change me. I did not change as time passed.
I learned and understood more of myself as time passed, and grasped more other knowledge that I simply used afterwards. It's different.
Looking back at myself now and then; nothing changed. I just see far clearer.