"Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you"
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Marilu Henner distills a lifetime of reinvention into a single, unblinking sentence. The phrase Like it or not signals inevitability: change is not an optional lifestyle trend but the ground condition of existence. First comes the outer world, always moving, technologically, culturally, politically. Then the quote pivots inward to priorities, the compass we use to navigate that shifting terrain. Finally it lands at the self, declaring that identity is not a fixed monument but a living system that updates in response to experience.
Coming from Henner, the message carries particular weight. She is renowned for her highly superior autobiographical memory and for a career that has spanned sitcom stardom on Taxi, Broadway, and a second act as a health and wellness author. A person who can recall the texture of past days with extraordinary clarity might be tempted to worship continuity. Yet Henner emphasizes evolution. Perfect recall does not freeze a person in amber; it can illuminate the pattern of changing values over time and make those shifts more conscious.
The line resists nostalgia as a worldview. Affection for the past can be grounding, but clinging to it can turn into a refusal to meet reality as it arrives. As life stages, relationships, and circumstances change, the hierarchy of what matters reorders itself: adventure yields to caregiving, career ambition gives way to health, or the reverse. Rather than lament that reshuffling, Henner nudges us to see it as evidence of growth.
The deeper claim is liberating. If you change, you are not betraying your younger self; you are fulfilling it by responding honestly to new information. Evolution does not erase identity; it refines it. Agency lives in how we participate in change, not in whether we can stop it. The invitation is to align your choices with the present, trusting that recalibrating your priorities is a sign of life.
Coming from Henner, the message carries particular weight. She is renowned for her highly superior autobiographical memory and for a career that has spanned sitcom stardom on Taxi, Broadway, and a second act as a health and wellness author. A person who can recall the texture of past days with extraordinary clarity might be tempted to worship continuity. Yet Henner emphasizes evolution. Perfect recall does not freeze a person in amber; it can illuminate the pattern of changing values over time and make those shifts more conscious.
The line resists nostalgia as a worldview. Affection for the past can be grounding, but clinging to it can turn into a refusal to meet reality as it arrives. As life stages, relationships, and circumstances change, the hierarchy of what matters reorders itself: adventure yields to caregiving, career ambition gives way to health, or the reverse. Rather than lament that reshuffling, Henner nudges us to see it as evidence of growth.
The deeper claim is liberating. If you change, you are not betraying your younger self; you are fulfilling it by responding honestly to new information. Evolution does not erase identity; it refines it. Agency lives in how we participate in change, not in whether we can stop it. The invitation is to align your choices with the present, trusting that recalibrating your priorities is a sign of life.
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| Topic | Embrace Change |
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