Having decided to repress inner promptings to change, some people begin at this point to turn away from the opportunities for development provided by transition and instead deal with the times of transition as temporary and accidental disruptions in an otherwise stable life. In the short run, these people seem to gain by avoiding the time-consuming shifts and inner reorientation that others are going through; but in the long run, they lose. They turn into the brittle beauties of the suburbs and the company yes-men who rejoin them at the end of the day.
