The path is ours to choose: we can meet life understanding that our True Self is more than whatever may be changing around or within us; or we can walk through life dreaming, darkly, that these changes themselves have the power to make of us something more -- or less -- as determined by our conditioned predilections towards what should, or shouldn't change for us. The first path leads to a life free of fear; the latter to a ceaseless fearful struggle with life.