“Everything’s destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.” Marcus Aurelius Fairy tales and myths are replete with stories of change, be it person to stone, rags to riches, a prince to a frog, or everything to gold. While there are certainly plenty of other messages contained in these myths, the story that change is inevitable, though often unexpected, is a constant one.
Ancient philosophers tell a similar tale: Ovid warns that “all things change”, Aurelius that “everything’s destiny is to change”, Heraclitus that “all is flux, nothing stays still”.
We, the children of the technological age, hardly need reminding of this fact. For us, life is change: new ways of being, new ideas, new people, and new gadgets abound. We expect,…
