Caroline Myss frames personal development as something woven into the fabric of being alive: we are “meant” to outgrow our current selves. By pairing inner growth with the unarguable reality of aging, she removes the illusion that change is optional or reserved for the especially ambitious. In other words, life is already a curriculum, and time is already moving the lesson along.
From this starting point, the quote invites a shift in mindset: rather than asking whether we will change, we begin asking what kind of people we become as change happens. That pivot sets up her central concern—not the fact of transition, but the manner in which we meet it. [...]
