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We use transformation for many kinds of change: a rebuilt neighborhood, a new strategy, a changing body, or a technology that alters an industry. That ordinary use is legitimate.

There is also a narrower inquiry. Circumstances can change dramatically while the same assumptions continue to organize experience. A shift in how we understand ourselves or what seems possible may begin before circumstances visibly change.

Neither kind of change makes the other unreal. The distinction simply prevents size from doing all the work. A dramatic change is dramatic; it does not tell us by itself whether the frame through which we live has changed.

When we call something a transformation, it helps to ask what changed: the conditions, our way of meeting them, or both.