Some things in life are inevitable. It doesn't matter who you are, where you live, or what you do. It makes no difference how powerful, how popular, or how prominent you've grown. One's accumulated wealth or wisdom is of little, if any, significance. Regardless of effort or endeavor, there are truths so tightly woven into the fabric of human existence that they become unalterable and absolute -- sureties which each and every one of us will encounter sooner or later. Benjamin Franklin, for instance, may well have been thinking along these lines when he first quipped, "In this life the only things certain are death and taxes." Those, admittedly, are two. However, if I may, I would like to add to the list a third: change.

Now, that probably strikes many of you as being so obvious that it har…