The Reformer

A Reformer is one who sees a wall blocking out the sun. He puts his shoulder down and charges against it, over and over again. More often than not what is left is a bruised and bloodied corpse at the base of that wall. Some of the people watching the man’s efforts see them as futile. Others see in the man a fanatic, a life not to be mimicked. But a few draw inspiration from him and lower their own shoulders for the charge. And so it goes generation after generation, until the corpses are piled so high that one of the few is able to climb over that wall. Soon many follow the path that was blazed. As time passes statues are erected as a memorial to the one who first made it over the wall. All the people applaud when his name is mentioned. Many of those who applaud do so while shaking their heads at the men charging against the next wall.