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Why do you think that does not describe the other examples you cited? Those examples are other people while this example is yourself. From inside change feels like finding the truth, while from outside it looks like value drift. What do those other people say about themselves? What do religious people you know say about you?
What you do changes who you are, and few young people's plans for their life are going to survive longer than a tiny fraction of it.
I don't know that that's the whole story.
For example, during the time I worked at Google, I observed that my coworkers' values, including those of people I otherwise respected, were drifting towards the values of the organization (or the value of loyalty toward the organization). This was part of the reason I left. I suspect this kind of value drift happens to most people in any organization or job. It's hard not to absorb the values you spend most of your time around, let alone the values that pay your salary.
So this is a case where I anticipated that my values were likely to drift, in a way incompatible with my current values, and removed myself from a situation I thought likely to cause that drift. (Mind you there were plenty of other reasons.)
Not to say that you weren't right to do that, but I notice that the religious will sometimes avoid consorting with the non-religious for the same reason.
Faced with an experience that one foresees being changed by, how should one decide whether to go ahead with it? Given several sets of values, such that from the standpoint of any of them all the others look worse, how to decide which to adopt?