This conviction that all reality is relational is not merely metaphorical. In other words, we are not simply saying that all things behave as if they were related to each other, nor are we saying that the bits of reality behave in like manner to the interaction of people. We are saying that the relational character of the world is not just metaphorical, but literally true. This is why process philosophy, and our own thinking, stresses change above everything else. If the identity of any person or object depends on its relationships with every other person or object, then logically this means that everything is changing all the time.
Nothing is static.
Change is the character of reality. Of course, it may well be that a landslide in Asia may not seem to dramatically change my life or my identity in Ontario very much. But this philosophy maintains that it does change me, ever so slightly. For some mystics, this has helped them understand the power of prayer, or the significance of personal change for corporate experience. For process philosophers, this lead Whitehead, Charles Harshorne and others to argue that what is fundamental about reality is not being, but rather becoming.