That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

Life endlessly offers us chances to set new directions and in the process we grow and change; when we look in the rearview mirror, we catch a glimpse of former selves who sometimes seem unrecognizable.[Trevor Benson]

He remembered forming his own ideas about the world, and his years as a teacher only reinforced the idea that change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.

Habit and tradition often render change undesirable.