JANETS WORLD:
ALL IS LOST IN OBSCURITY
All my life I’ve been in love with History. I learned at an early age that if you love reading you can live a thousand lifetimes and if you’re wise you have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of others. I’ve certainly experienced the former, that of others and that of myself, while unfortunately not doing much of the latter.
My love of History has given me countless hours of joy lost in reading, mired in thinking, and entertained by speculation.
Webster defines history as "acts, ideas, or events that will or can shape the course of the future." There have been several events in history that have shaped the world and its people. The events that have shaped my future and where they took me were sometimes good and sometimes not so good. But one thing that I did learn was that history always repeats itself in life cycles.
I am a firm believer that we are put on this earth, by our creator, to go through “life lessons”. If we do not learn from each life lesson we are doomed to repeat the lesson until it is learned. Having first-hand experience in this philosophy I have had to repeat many “life lessons”, and I still remain in the process of learning.
Though most have never heard of him many can misquote the writer and philosopher George Santayana who is reported to have said, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
What he actually said was, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” I also believe that we are born knowing all of the civilizations’ history but as we become aware of our surroundings we forget what we already knew. (This can also account for the many genii’ in this world that haven’t been affected by societies influence and have retained certain parts of past history).
To most people History begins the day they’re born. For all of us, it ends the day we die.
There is a subtle difference there for learning and remembering are two different things. This sounds so wise. It even appears self-evident.
History is nothing more than the stories of people just like us who lived at different times in what were essentially different worlds. They had the same bodies and minds that we do. They felt the same emotions. They lived, they died, and now it is our turn. If we don’t learn anything from History that helps us in our everyday life we might as well read fiction.
I know that most people study History because they have to. I know most people find it boring. As an exercise in memorizing dates, names, and facts to be later regurgitated on a test and forgotten I can well understand the boring part.
There are so few who can see through the stories making History so exciting. So few can lose themselves in the narrative, imagine themselves on the deck of that ship, in the palace with the king, or in the hut with that peasant. They only see dates, and names, and facts. BORING!
I must tell you all that it’s essentially the equivalent of an ant studying a castle made of sand. He spends his life telling other ants how wondrous the castle is, how imposing its turrets are, how deep its moat, and how formidable its defenses then the waves come in the castle is gone and the ants have disappeared.
In the 4.5 billion years of this planet’s existence, in the fifteen billion years since the Big Bang, the history of humanity doesn’t even take up the last few pages. It would fill perhaps part of a sentence, a few words such as……………. All things will pass only those things done in Christ will last.
That’s it.
The sum total of all I have learned, all I have discovered, and all I will ever know will fade into obscurity when I am gone. So stop fighting a war that’s already been won. Stop spinning your wheels running in a race that goes in a circle. Step out of the darkness and into the light and let this be the first day of the rest of your life.
By Janet Varney
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