His Majesty Change

There was once a man who loved only what is constant. He conserved the past as a levy against the future. Yet all about him the regular wisdom declared that change is the only constant. One day he became so tired of the notion that change is the only constant that he became a tyrant and declared himself King Change The Only Constant so that nothing would change as long as he ruled. But soon there grew an unrest among those he ruled over and they began to use new words. New words for ‘change’ and new words for ‘constant’. Gradually their revolution grew to overthrow King Change The Only Constant because they new in their heart of hearts, beyond all power and language, that change was the only constant, and that it belonged to no one.