Acedia is the malaise of the soul that comes from rejecting your basic nature, of denying the legitimacy of that which you know yourself in your deepest heart to be. It is the feeling of facing down your telos, screwing up your face, stamping your foot, and shouting "No! Shan't!"
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For sure. People can, do, and should, change, often in profound ways. But also people end up in denial about aspects of themselves that they'd be better off embracing because they're never going away, or at least not going away before you eat your shadow by embracing them.
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