We tend to believe, hope and... be dissatisfied in little things, small things. Believing that someone and somehow can change... For what? For whom? Why? His stupid habit of not calling back, her way of answering with interjections to your every word, as if to let you know that she hears and is in the subject ... He will surely understand how important to you ... and she will finally love soccer and will surely be able to argue with you on an equal footing.
But no... Never! And there's no need, really... Comfort, its level and/or degree form a person's habits. His ambitions, values and current tasks are the same level/degree. The person himself sets the goal to change something in himself... maybe even to try "I can/can't", not you with your conditions, tastes, requirements and... some values.
Here's a simple recipe,
that you can't buy with bluster and flattery--keep yourself at that one,
© Ivan Niko
who you dreamed of loving
as she is...
I heard it once: "man doesn't change, man manifests"... in the time you are trying to measure him for some reason, he frantically resists in his gut, not understanding your attacks. Your format of another person's "rightness" and "as-needed" is most likely his/her "limited" freedom. Well, that's how he/she is....
Are you thinking about something? Are you looking for something that pisses you off, annoys you and makes you tired? Do you remember it all with a smile!!!? © "keep yourself at that
who I dreamed of loving as she is..."