Sometimes in life we need to switch directions. Willingly or not.

This pivot feels enormous from the inside. Our identity is still attached to the direction we were once going in. You could be living a dream you spent years building and still feel unsatisfied. And just because you poured everything into something that no longer fulfills you, doesn't mean it was a waste of time in the slightest.

There is a sunk cost fallacy that sits heavy and tells us otherwise. That changing course means it was all for nothing.

But sunk cost is just an economic term. You obtained skills, and the knowledge that here is not where you are meant to stay. There is always more to explore.

Heraclitus said it twenty-five hundred years ago: "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." No matter where you go, you are always having an original experience. The question is simply what kind of experience you want to have next.

Pivoting is not starting over. Nothing is lost. Things are always in a constant state of change.

The river keeps moving, just as you do.

— The Editors

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