I just saw a book titled, How to Change Someone You Love: Four steps to help you help them.
And I scoffed.
Learn a lesson from Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis,” as Venus with all her beauty pleaded, Adonis could not be persuaded. “My love to love is love but to disgrace it.”
You cannot change those you love; they can only take it upon themselves to change. The only person you have complete reign over, the only soul you could ever hope to command or manipulate is your own.
“She’s love, she loves, but she is not loved.”
Broker not, bargain none, scream, enrage, fling; beg, cry, flatter all you want but you can never change someone who does not want to change.
“Look how he can, she cannot choose but love;
And by her fair immortal hand she swears,
From his soft bosom never to remove,
Till he take truce with her contending tears,
Which long have rain'd, making her cheeks all wet;
And one sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt.
Upon this promise did he raise his chin,
Like a dive-dapper peering through a wave,
Who, being look'd on, ducks as quickly in;
So offers he to give what she did crave;
But when her lips were ready for his pay,
He winks, and turns his lips another way.”
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