I have heard the statement, characteristic can not change because it will be the specification. It is the nature thing that we get since we was born. But, It is not true. I am sure you ever feel that your characteristic always changes. It will change depend on your activity. When your activity result is satisfied, you will be on good mood, and when your activity result is bad, your mood will be bad too. And I have heard the proverb, "The people characteristic as a chameleon". It means that our characteristic is not static, it always dynamic. As like we know, chameleon always change its skin depend on its environment. The changed of skin chameleon's color because of the emotion changes. know more
Maybe someone said that our characteristic changes because of devil. Devil disturbing the people so they get angry, ambitious and egoist. Maybe it is true, because it is the devil's job. In Ramadan month, we must control our mood, we must not angry and keep our heart so it always clean. In this month, devils are handcuffed by God. So they can not disturb ours. So when Ramadan come, the people can know their heart voice without devil's inducement. But, without devil's inducement, our characteristic still changeable. Yeeah. It is true. So, the conclusion is, the changed of characteristic is depend on the environment around the people life.
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