One of the reasons high school and college last a finite amount of time is because our brains are mature enough to develop a perspective.
Perspective is great. It’s a little like driving on a dirt road with deep ruts. Your vehicle drives itself – no need to steer, as the ruts guide you forward.
Developing a perspective is committing to those ruts. The problem is, it’s hard to get back out of them. And the ruts in the road that seem promising when you start can feel tired – and tiring – at the end of a few years.
Heading to a new school is picking new ruts to drive in.
At the very least, a new road gives you new scenery. Ideally, though, those new ruts take you in a new direction, and give you new perspective on the world.
If you were to stay too long in one set of ruts, you’d get stuck and never be able to choose a new road, choose a new perspective.