When Change Kicks the Door Open: What Sudden Endings Teach Us About Adaptation

Change is one of those words that sounds quite neat until it happens to you.

In theory, change can sound fresh, energising and full of possibility. We talk about growth, new chapters, opportunity and transformation. Lovely words. Very shiny. Very brochure-friendly.

In real life, change often arrives holding a cardboard box, a half-charged phone and a look on its face that says, ‘Right, we’re doing this now.’