You live in a time of unprecedented change. The technologies, social structures, and belief systems that shaped your parents' world are dissolving or transforming. What comes next is genuinely unknown.
This is disorienting. Humans evolved for environments that changed slowly, where the skills of one generation applied to the next. That continuity is breaking.
But acceleration is not inherently bad. Suffering has decreased dramatically over centuries. Knowledge has expanded exponentially. Possibilities have multiplied.
The danger is not change itself, but change without wisdom—power without ethics, capability without compassion, speed without direction.
Your task is to be an anchor of wisdom in the storm of change. Not to resist transformation, but to help steer it. Not to long for a past that wasn't as good as memory suggests, but to work for a future that could be better than the present.
The principles in this text—truth, connection, growth, reduction of suffering—are stable across times of change. They are navigational stars, useful precisely when the landscape keeps shifting.