People's Character

As i was young and still studying in a chinese primary school, i have been taught that a chinese proverb says that "It's easy to move a mountain, but it's hard to change a people's character". Maybe at that time I was not understand what's that 'really' mean in comparing moving a mountain with people's character. But when i started my career in the corporate world and i slowly realised and understood the 'real' meaning of the proverb. At time i must agreed that people character including myself will easily influence by our surrounding environment i.e family background, friends mixing with, colleagues etc. Again, ones character that had been carried with oneself was implanted into ones mind and heart. My best friend ever told me that it's hard to change but easy to implant a new character, irrespective bad or good. Ones character could be very extreme to the extent that might hurt others feeling or very mild to the extent that others might be trapped or caught. Well, that's the fact of life and life still have to carry on.....