Things change all the time.

Only change is constant.

I’m baffled by this obsession for normal. Normal was not great. Normal led us to this. This urgent push for normal, whatever that even means, seems like a straight up example of Elite Panic. Normal is just an illusion anyway, since things change all the time.

Trail information interpretive sign with the heading stating “Only Change is Constant” at Cedar Swamp Trail in the Dryden Kuser Natural Area at High Point State Park in New Jersey USA. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert