There's a line that says: "People change, but they can't change back, I think it's harder."

Is this true?

Specifics are required for answers to this kind of question.

One obvious one: people can change from young to old. Pretty hard to change back.

Of course.

Change happens naturally whether you want it to or not.

Change that occurs without your direct involvement requires little effort.

Change that you try to control is going to necessitate greater effort simply due to the number of variables you have to try and consciously control, mitigate, identify, and understand all while simultaneously trying harder to pay attention to the effect natural change may influence your attempts at controlled change.

You know,some times,people don't change,you just get to see the real them,who they truly are,that's usually those "phony" type f***ers, you know !

And then there's the type that change towards certain people,for good reason,example,if I'm always nice to you and you take it for weakness,I'm going to change towards YOU,and in THAT case,it WOULD be harder for some or maybe most people to change back!!

I don't know about " changing back".
But I do know people only change if they really want to & not for someone or something else.

I like the saying, that has applied to me,. " When the pain gets bad enough, then you do something about it"

Suppose you love or like someone alot,you're always nice to them,you would go the extra mile for them,only to find out later they're not worthy of it,and have only been using you,you do this to alot of people until you get tired of it,ok,then you decide to do something about it,tell me,if you decide to do something about it,what would you say led you TO do something about it?

Double post

And yes, people can and do change back,the difficulty depends on what you're talking about,there's change from bad to good,there's change from good to bad ECT,and also depends on the person as well!!

Pain.. people miss interpreting kindness & good human qualities for weakness. This causes pain & resentment. But we can not change this people that use us. We can only change our own actions & reactions.
If we have have to let them go,let them go.

I had to learn the hard way that...

People are in our life for a reason,a season, or a lifetime. And sometimes the reason is to learn how not to be or to learn to walk away.

I totally understand,you're making sense,but you do realize that changes is also a part of growth right?What I'm saying is,changes are a part of life,and they're different types of changes,but you understand all that though!

I agree, absolutely. Change is a part of growth. Some people fear it. Some fear it so much that they hate it when other people change. They are ' joy killers '.
Some just except it. Some change is inevitable, like age. Some is controllable like our diet or the friends we choose.

You're so right,well said!!

I am going to take this in two parts.
First Part
People change each and everyday.. They can say "I am not changing for anyone yet we do evolve and change. We can't help it if we live in the real world. Now in saying that anyone can change anything in their lives they just have to want it bad enough.

Can't change back
well in a sense they can't because they have already added more information into their minds. What they can do is say well I am not really happy with this I.E. thought process, way of doing something, actions... you name it whatever it is you choose to go back to it will be changed since you the person has changed.

Any way this is just my humble opinion on change

I changed for my second wife. Quit smoking. As soon as I got divorced I changed back

That sounds right.

There's different things that people do which they call change, too.

In situations where people are trying to build or maintain relationships especially, it's pretty common for an exchange to take place, where one of them is unhappy, and wants the other one to change in order to make things work. Or they want to change themselves.

So one or both people might force themselves to live differently from the way they have done before. Clean up more, do more tasks that the other one used to do, stop indulging in some personal pleasures which the mate is upset by, or can't participate in.

But a lot of the time, that's all surface stuff. They really didn't CHANGE in any real way, they just stuffed that aspect of who they were away in a closet; disguised it like putting a decorative cover over it so the other person wont have to look at it every day.

You can sometimes only tell that this is what happened, because after the couple splits up, each one reverts to their real behaviors again.

And then there's the kind of change some of us put ourselves through that is real, and requires us to do a lot of work, and to completely restructure how we look at life, and why we live it. The reason why that kind of change is usually irreversible, is because we actually do CHANGE. We become the new us.

In that case, it's similar to a situation where you don't like your house, so you tear it down to the dirt and build a new one. You do CHANGE your house, in a very intense way. And you can't "change it back" easily, because the old house is now gone.

Well....should we ask a transgender?

I think everyone changes.. to different degrees based on their life.

In my opinion there are changes you make to yourself or your way of thinking due to experiences or knowledge you gather over the years. You evolve.. so you change.

Then there are personal changes that people make based on what they feel they need to improve on. Some of these changes are easy, some require serious soul searching and time. Some people make those changes.. some never do.

If you do make the personal changes you can certainly go back to your "old" ways.. but your other growth can never go backwards.

Meaning, I am not the same man I was at 20 or 30 or 40.. I have grown.. evolved.. thus I am different.

Hmm we're still waiting on the answer.