Shining Thru

If you could change the past what moment would you choose to change?  Not just in your life time, but if you could change one event in all of the world’s history what would it be?  How could you possibly know the outcome of that choice?  Would it be worth possibly erasing your own existence from the earth?  What if the moment you choose, even if it is centuries ago, is the moment that makes it so that your parents never meet and therefore you are never born?

If we had time machines, I am afraid that people would jump into them without ever seriously considering the fact that they might screw up their chances of ever existing, or change the world completely….what if that is what somebody wants…a whole new existence?  I think that many people would jump into the past and think it was pretty awesome to be there, myself included, but what if they just wanted to change one thing….then what?

How would you ever choose what one thing you wanted to change in history?  Everyone’s perspective is different, because everyone has been affected by the outcome of events in a different way…The impact of a single event may mean nothing to someone from NYC in the United States, but might be everything to a whole village in China…

We never know how the events of history have formed because we weren’t there…but what if we could go back and see for ourselves how things came about?  Would we want to change them?

Unforeseen history in the making…every day we go through and every person that we meet goes into our personal history book.  Never knowing what’s coming can’t look back until it’s printed on the pages.  Sometimes I wonder how my story will end up.

Watching people out in crowded spaces sometimes I wonder what their story is….some people look creepy some people look happy some people look distant and sad….I wonder where they have been and how their stories will end.

Everything that we experience helps to form the life that we will end up with, the life that will be looked at probably only upon our death, maybe not even then….  I think that very few people have their lives examined, do people care about the history that the average person has put into the world?  What if the average Joe down the street is the one who started the ripples that ended with something great happening, and someone else getting the credit?

What if people are linked to your pages that you don’t even realize because they are in a different volume, a new series but still a spin off and are connected to your pages?

The book of life is an ongoing history account of all of the people in the world…all of the events and situations that they encountered, how the first event has spiraled, penetrating into lives that were not even an afterthought or the beginnings of a thought when the even occurred, into lives that the person was not even aware existed.  Degrees of separation in life are only important when you need to prove something….what about all of the events and history of the every day life that is never questioned or examined…what if someone were to look at what was really written in the every day history book?

Who ever said that the history books were correct?  What makes us think that we can say beyond a shadow of a doubt what happened hundreds or thousands of years ago on this planet?  Even once we had the benefit of writing, most of the languages have been altered so much that it is sometimes impossible to detect what the author was actually trying to say.  Even stories written in plain English were not always accurate, we have no way of knowing if a person was telling the truth or if they were highly imaginative and enjoyed writing fiction in a believable way to entertain the people around them. 

There are so many stories that have been false and yet have made it into the history books, to the point that many historians have refused to truly examine other possibilities…and it’s starting to be noticed.  Especially the lie about Columbus “discovering” America.  I’ve never heard anything more ridiculous, as more and more proof of this inaccuracy is revealed, why is it that we are still teaching this story as if it was fact.  Why are we still celebrating a holiday in honor of this rapist and robber?  Especially when there is a lot of proof that is emerging to suggest if not prove that there were many Europeans as well as Asians here before Columbus even thought about making his famous voyage.

Why is it that people deny the facts that are set right in front of them?  Why is it that people don’t ever want to look for what could have been and just accept what they are told about the past?  The past is what makes us who we are, don’t we want to know what the true past of our country is?  I simply don’t understand why it’s so hard for some people to believe that we may have made a mistake about what happened on this planet hundreds of years before we were on it.

Memories seem to be of importance in most cultures, back to ancient times when it was a treat to hear the story of the culture’s history.  And then we moved to journals and works of art (clay, paintings, tapestries, etc).  Writing the unknown thoughts that pour forth, the gaping knowledge you can’t always tap, not wanting to lose it….but why have we always wanted to keep things from our time alive?  Do we really write it to go back and read, do we hope that someone else will read it later?  Do we write to keep things alive at all, or to let it go?  What is the real purpose of all of the traditions that go into the keeping of memories?  It seems like every culture has their own traditions about storytelling and memories, but do they tell them to keep them alive and well or to let them go and learn from the past?

Why can’t we explore the possibility that we may have printed the wrong stories in the history books?  More and more evidence of the past that is not in any history book is being brought to the surface, and yet we don’t see any official printings of these artifacts or what they could mean for our history.  things are pulled and printed and maybe a theory or two, but it seems like it is impossible to change what is in the history books. 

I am tired of reading what could be all false.  What people refuse to change simply because it is what has been taught in classrooms for generations.  One of the things that aggravates me the most is when people say that Columbus discovered America….I have a few major problems with this concept.  First, how do you discover a land that already has people living there?  Second, there have been soooo many artifacts proving (at least in my opinion) that Columbus was not the first European to find America.  One such artifact is the Kensington Runestone…and all of the stone structures that are found throughout North America.  There is also the possibility that the Chinese were also in America long before Columbus….So why then, do we still have Columbus Day and why do we still tell the lies in history classrooms throughout America, brainwashing elementary kids into “In 1492 Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue” and found America and blah blah blah….never mentioning that they also enslaved, raped, and robbed the natives that they did encounter. 

I think it’s time that we took a serious look at our history books here in America and maybe make some long awaited revisions.  Not only to the facts, but what facts they choose to put in.  I believe that all of our nation’s people should be represented in the history books instead of the one sided view that we always seem…where minorities are over looked or skimmed over.