A quiet fear says that changing means looking down on where you started, and it keeps a lot of people smaller than they need to be. Loyalty shows in how you treat the people and the place, not in staying the same size. You can learn things, move away, change how you speak, and still come back, still call, still turn up when it counts.

If you are growing away from home, keep those connections deliberate rather than automatic. Ring the people, go back for what matters. Nobody who loves you wanted you to stay still.