Has House (or other main characters) Changed?

[barefootpuddles.livejournal.com]

One of House's mottos, and David Shore's themes, is that "people don't change". Yet for some of us, there is some compelling evidence that this may not be true.[Poll #1821759]


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[lilithisbitter.livejournal.com]

Fundamentally, you will always be the same person. You can't change that. What you change is the you that you present the world, the pretty lie that you decide that people will accept over the real you. People are layered that way. The truth of the matter is people never change. And it just might be that person in question, you never really knew them.

It's "everyone lies" now, like the lies are big and grand... but at one point it was "everyone lies, the only variable is about what." It's not always a big lie about symptoms or what you did in Mexico that you shouldn't have been. It's lying about what you like, who you are, trying to make yourself more pleasing to your significant other. But at your core, you are still you. You're lying through your teeth, because to say truth, you feel they would leave you at best and forever hate you at worst. And when that true self comes out, they swear up and down how you've changed. But the truth of the matter is, you've only been wearing a mask of yourself, hiding away. You haven't changed one lick, you've just learned how to be a very good liar.

[jpblack.livejournal.com]

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