Too Much Change?

A friend mentioned recently that we’re going through too many changes. I didn’t really know what to make of it at the time, but it stuck with me.

Later that day I did something daft — I reverted my Facebook profile picture to an old one. I knew it was pointless as soon as I did it. Changing a profile picture doesn’t anchor anything. But I think I was reaching for something familiar, something that hadn’t changed, even if it was just an image on a screen.

It’s a small thing, but it made me think about how we handle uncertainty. When everything around you is shifting, the instinct is to grab onto what’s static. Old photos, old habits, old versions of yourself.

I don’t know if I’ve found a better way to deal with it yet. But pretending the change isn’t happening doesn’t help either.