Can anybody ever change your current identity other than you yourself alone? Can anybody transform you into a completely different and more respectable a human being?
If no, is it, at all, possible to create a new identity of yours, without mercilessly divorcing and dumping the old one?
Well, Where does your identity lie? It lies inside your cherished idea of yourself. It lies in your indulged tendencies, habits and practices.
It is not easy to change them, so long, you don't start loving and embracing your new identity to such an extent that you automatically leave all connection with the old one, i.e. denying any more attachment with the habitual old tendencies and practices.
Only a determined power of indifference can make this radical change finally take place in reality.