Some risks are necessary simply because staying unchanged carries its own danger.

Staying the same is not the neutral option. Circumstances move, skills date, relationships need renewing, and a life held perfectly still is drifting relative to everything around it. The risk of change gets counted carefully while the risk of no change gets recorded as zero, which is the error.

When weighing a change, do the other side of the ledger properly. Ask where you will be in five years if nothing shifts, described concretely. If that picture concerns you, then standing still is also a risk, and the choice is between two of them rather than between risk and safety.