The more accurate statement is that people, like everything else, are changing constantly. This change often occurs in spite of our best efforts to hold on to and maintain what is familiar – even if it's misery. Change is relentless and inevitable. It both creates and undoes us. What causes our distress is a more or less rigid attachment to the way things were a decade, a year, a month, or a moment ago.
It is vital that we adapt to our bodies as they grow (stronger or weaker, faster or slower), as well as to the changes in those we love, the changes in our work life, and the changes in the world around us.
 Psychotherapy can help us accept our losses more gracefully, evaluate our possibilities more fully, and participate more proactively in the process of our own lives.