"Change should not be done for the sake of change -- it's a strategy to accomplish some overall goal. " (Basic Context for Organizational Change)

How does this apply on a personal level? Why do we sometimes seem to change things in our lives just for the sake of change? Or maybe it only seems so on the surface, but we are in fact following a strategy to accomplish an overall goal in the back of our minds. The promise of a better life?

Someone will call
Something will fall
And smash on the floor
Without reading the text
Know what comes next
Seen it before
And it's painful

Things must change
We must rearrange them
Or we'll have to estrange them
All that I'm saying
The game's not worth playing
Over and over again

From "The Sun and The Rainfall" by Depeche Mode,