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Another scary part about this, of course, too, is stability, as we all know, is fragile. It’s not always there. It can change overnight. If you aren’t constantly exercising your transition muscles — if you will — if you aren’t constantly out there looking for change and engaging in change and looking at opportunities and being aware o them and making “carefully considered decisions”, when you’re presented with something like that, where stability suddenly goes out the window in a large way, we often don’t know how to react. We’ve lost the ability…we don’t just not want to be uncomfortable. We’ve forgot how to be uncomfortable…and we freak out. (AGITATED) “I can’t deal with it. Too much. I can’t deal with it!” it overwhelms us, because we haven’t had to go through that much change in such a long period of time. We’ve forgotten how to change.