Unchangeable

You cannot ever force something to change.

No matter what it is, change will not be forced.

People naturally change from what they learn,

But there are those who have not refined this ability.

They know better than behaving as they do,

But they don't have enough empathy to care enough to stop hurting you.

When you try to force something to change,

You will either destroy it utterly,

Or cause it to turn against you in self-defense.

When you come face to face with anything feral,

You run the risk of either killing it,

Or being killed by it.

The same can be said about the people that you encounter.

Some people are feral by nature.

They have never known real kindness,

And never learned to be truly kind in return.

They may appear 'tame' like a wild wolf kept as a pet,

But they will instinctually turn on you when they feel threatened.

You will see people who need your help,

They are stuck, half-awakened,

And they haven't completed the next step,

And they see that you have accomplished that,

So they turn to you for a push,

But then they react in terror to being pushed, they aren't ready.

You can clearly see their capacity to learn to change,

But until they are ready to learn to change themselves,

There is nothing you can do directly to change them.

All you can do is be as kind to them as you can,

And let them grow on their own.

This means stepping back from dangerous situations.

Do not ever willingly stay in a dangerous situation.

You know that a person is dangerous to your being,

But you think you can change them,

So you spend your life patching up the damage that they do to you,

Struggling to recover from the cruelty and abuse,

Because you think you can carry them through this process.

You can't.

But what can happen from this behavior,

Is that you are permanently and irrevocably damaged,

You spend your life trying to nudge someone else up a hill,

And they see this as a personal attack,

So they turn against you defensively with cruelty.

The ones that you are most tempted to do this with,

Are those who are already half-awakened,

And you know that they are just a tiny step away,

So you try to push them in the right direction,

But they reject being pushed, feeling 'manipulated',

And turn against you to fight you.

You can't make these aggressive type of people,

Be anything other than aggressive.

You need to get the hell out of that situation,

Because you are not changing them in any good way,

But they are literally killing you.

Don't wait until you have to be buried to get away from those situations.