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There is a saying that goes, “A leopard can’t change its spots.”

I never really stopped to think about the phrase and haven’t used it for quite some time. The other day, as always, as I was doing something that was completely unrelated to blogging, a post began to form in my mind.

We all associate this phrase with a negative connotation that, bluntly, people can’t/don’t change. Then I began to think about those people in my life who I’m glad to find they never changed. As the sea of life drifts us together and then apart again it is always reassuring when we drift back together that those familiar faces are still the same familiar people you remember.

Then you have the other people. The people in your life that you keep around and they’re consistently in your life. Being one who gives everyone the “benefit of the doubt” and multiple chances to be in my life I tend to forget the phrase, “a leopard cannot change its spots.” Then something happens with said people and I’m shaken back to a reality that they were that person they “used to be” all along and yet each time I’m shocked at their behavior and cannot figure out why they are that way.

Then I coincidentally came home and found this song. In going along with the theme I wonder if it is much of a coincidence or if it was a message to me about those people; something for my readers to ponder. So as I used to do many years ago when I began blogging… “I leave you with the lyrics”.

Goodbye
Secondhand Serenade

It’s a shame that it had to be this way
It’s not enough to say I’m sorry
It’s not enough to say I’m sorry

Maybe I’m to blame
Or maybe we’re the same
But either way I can’t breathe
Either way I can’t breathe

All I had to say is goodbye
We’re better off this way
We’re better off this way

I’m alive but I’m losing all my drive
Cause everything were been through
And everything about you
Seemed to be a lie
A guiltless twisted lie
It made me learn to hate you
Or hate myself for letting it pass by

All I had to say is goodbye
Were better off this way
Were better off this way
All I had to say is goodbye
Were better off this way
Were better off this way

And every, everything isn’t only
What it seemed so hold these
Words that you never told me
Its time to say goodbye
Its time to say goodbye
Its time to say goodbye
Goodbye

Bye

Night,
-JM