Change Is Not The Only Constant Thing In Life

 

By Hafees Onitilo

I have this attitude of thinking in the opposite direction, as a Factist writer it helps me a lot because with this I am able to look at the fact behind what is been argued on. Something happened that made me think in the opposite direction concerning this popular saying “CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT THING IN LIFE”.

For you to understand where I am coming from you should be ready to also think in the opposite direction. Like many other popular saying that we have so much believed in, if you have ever thought of thinking about it in the opposite direction then you might probably notice that not all those saying are right or should I say probably not all of them will be entirely true. For example let take a look at this saying “THERE IS NO EASY WAY TO SUCCESS”, for me I believe this saying isn’t complete. I feel the right thing should be “THERE IS NO EASY WAY TO SUCCESS NEITHER IS THERE A EASY WAY TO ACCEPT FAILURE”. To be successful you have to work hard but also been a failure need an extra work, failure is not failing jamb or having an extra year in the university, failure is when you finally give up on that thing you really want not because you can’t but because you don’t have faith or probably because you don’t believe in the dream anymore. I would love to explain further but because this isn’t the main issue I will let you do the thinking and see if you can think in the same direction I was thinking.

I was with someone last week, we got talking and there was something about what he said that made me realized that change isn’t the only constant in life. He said as one of his family members was celebrating the birth of their new child another family member of his were in tears concerning the death their mother, I told him 'that is the way life is' and we can’t always have it both ways. Later that night when I was on my bed I thought about the conversation I had with him and then it hit me.

Just to be sure and understand what just came to me I got up and took a dictionary as I search for the meaning of the word CONSTANT and it says “something that happen every time, keep happening again and again”. Then I started to connect the dot of what I thought of, it is said that every human being must die and in a way that has made death something that will keep happening over and over again and looking at the world today death is been recorded all over even as you are reading this write up someone somewhere is dying.

If this is so ,it only means that death is also a constant thing. If the definition of constant is anything to go by then I am guessing by now you would have realized that Change Is Not The Only Constant Thing In Life, this doesn’t mean Change isn’t a constant thing in life but it shouldn’t be said to be the Only Thing that is Constant in life.

Now I guess you understand why I said the saying “Change Is The Only Constant Thing In Life” is incomplete, I am of the opinion that the saying should be rephrased as “CHANGE AND DEATH ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT ARE CONSTANT IN LIFE” and that is because as man is prone to change so also is man prone to death, as a matter of fact as a change occur in one man’s life, death is also occurring in the life of another man. Unless you can vividly tell me when and where in the world was it recorded that nobody died then I might stick with the saying that change is the only constant thing in life but as much as death keeps occurring over and over again,  I will proudly say “CHANGE AND DEATH ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT ARE CONSTANT IN LIFE”. Thank you.