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"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." ~ Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg Address
i could lecture on why history is so important, but i won't i'll keep it brief
we will never know exactly what people of the past said behind closed doors, away from their diaries, scribes & eager ears. The only way we can see into the past is through the things they left behind, most importantly words & paintings/photographs. Film is still in it's infancy, if only we had film 200, 300, 400 years ago. what would we see, what would we know differently. Which brings me to my point, it doesn't matter one way or another from person to person, but putting your life into words, your feelings on anything & everything your experience as a human being in this lifetime will mean everything to people of tomorrow. And the only way that you will not be forgoten long after the worms have taken you is to write about yourself and your world.
Shakspere said it right when this world is merely a stage & we are all actors, because one day we will become the actors in historical texts playing out in an unfelt time period to the future readers. People of the past that we read about today seem like fictional characters when in all reality they were as real as we are, just living day to day in the time they were born into. But only one thing is similiar between them & us, we are human beings & that will never change.
i could lecture on why history is so important, but i won't i'll keep it brief
we will never know exactly what people of the past said behind closed doors, away from their diaries, scribes & eager ears. The only way we can see into the past is through the things they left behind, most importantly words & paintings/photographs. Film is still in it's infancy, if only we had film 200, 300, 400 years ago. what would we see, what would we know differently. Which brings me to my point, it doesn't matter one way or another from person to person, but putting your life into words, your feelings on anything & everything your experience as a human being in this lifetime will mean everything to people of tomorrow. And the only way that you will not be forgoten long after the worms have taken you is to write about yourself and your world.
Shakspere said it right when this world is merely a stage & we are all actors, because one day we will become the actors in historical texts playing out in an unfelt time period to the future readers. People of the past that we read about today seem like fictional characters when in all reality they were as real as we are, just living day to day in the time they were born into. But only one thing is similiar between them & us, we are human beings & that will never change.