girldetective

So Mary and I were talking about having children. Which led to talking about what one cannot change. We came to the conclusion that the only thing one couldnt change is their genes and inherent health problems, although that is not to to say that science would not be able to help in this regard.

The only other two things that we could think of that one could effect change, but would stay with you until they werent with you any more were debts and children. One you look to shrink, the other to grow.

Surely there must be others.

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Baraka_Guru

We cannot change our genuine smiles.

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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ASU2003

We can't change what happened in the past.

ngdawg

We can't change our choices, only rectify the wrong ones and embrace the right ones.

Willravel

Adoption is a sure way to not have your genes move on to your children. I'm still considering it.

We can't change the past, yet. Still, one can effect the choices one has made in the past in the present.

Cernunnos

We can't zap the traffic ahead of us out of existence.

If you ever become irritated while on the road, remember that, take a deep breath, and relax.

jewels

Which goes hand in hand with...

Other people.

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Manic_Skafe

We can't change anything.

Thankfully enough we still have our illusions to hold on to.

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thespian86

Well played.

I can't change me, I'm a monster. I find myself more and more becoming a man that I never thought I would be, and realizing that's life. It's not a terrible thing.

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roachboy

on any number of scales, change is continuous, continuity an illusion.

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Ourcrazymodern?

Every time you change your mind, everything changes, so I might guess nothing.
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"Knowing when, where, and how to find food..." might be as good for us.

I think it might not be supermarkets.

simulacrality

You can´t change the fact that if someonetickles your feet you might giggle like a little girl - although i guess that resides in genes . . . you can´t change time (but someone can -i.e world time differences).

Burgerflipp

We cant change our genetic predispositions. Can't change what culture,race or ethnicity we're born into.

abaya

Along those lines, neither can we change the socio-economic status that we are born into--though we can arguably shift our "class" during the rest of our lives, but even that is questionable (depending on a variety of circumstances).

As for me, I would do well to remember that I can't change my mother.

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Ourcrazymodern?

Reproductiom might revolve:
I see guns at ev'ry possible angle,
and still I might resist them.

(Believe it or not, and thank Ripley)

Halx

The past is entirely up to the perception of the individuals who experienced it. Through suggestion, we can change the memories that people have, thus changing how the past is remembered.

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X3N0

We can't change the absence of form from matter and energy free space, for we can only fill it.

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Ayashe

Truthfully can one person alter any other person? Particularly not if it is unwanted. We may want for that change but ultimately we cannot do it for them.

Jetée

Brilliantly insightful.
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Insightfully brilliant.

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