...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us hope for change and improvement.

Your fear of change is too clearly visible in your eyes