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36 People's Ability to Change




“I believe in so many things!”, Guusje said. “But, to start with, I believe in people’s ability to learn and to change. I know that many people believe differently, that you never change, but I see it this way: Your core will never change, your core personality. But you can learn so many things and change drastically as a result, change your behaviour, your attitude, your perspective, your reactions.

I mean, I can see it in you, I can see it in myself, we are not the same persons anymore we used to be some years ago…”


When I lied down in order to see what her smallest would look like, I saw Guusje’s eye.


“Why do I see you?”, I asked her eye.


“Because I will show”, the eye said. "I will show you my core, the core that never changes, and I will show you the way I feel, and whether my eyes are clear or cloudy, red or radiant, welling, willing, or still, all of this will be reflected in the eye, the I, the self. The mourning and the hopes. After all, they are all a symbol and an incorporation of our perspective on life.”

Ay, ay, what a wise eye-I!


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