The cost of change

What is change? Defined in the Webster Dictionary as a “Shift from one to another”, change seems for the better. But is it? What is the cost of change? What must go wrong, for something to go right? How many people must die for a certain cause or change in history? It seems that the cost of change is always greater than the change itself. People learn off of other people’s torment and anguish.…

…the summer of 1794, Robespierre had been condemned and guillotined, and the Reign of Terror was over. So, were the thousands and thousands of lives worth the change? Were the innocent slaughters of thousands of men and women worth the change? People of France did become loyal to the Republic, and politically, France finally had a powerful government system. It’s a shame that thousands of French Citizens had to die for it to become so.