You Are History

This morning I was laying in bed thinking about how odd it is that random little people left their mark in history and was wondering if I would do the same. For example Rasputin. Rasputin was a nobody but somehow he was able to make himself known to the Russian royal family and now everyone will always remember him. Or take Betsy Ross, she was a simple seamstress woman who is famed for sewing the first American flag. Any little thing could possibly make you famous and this could inevitably make you remembered for all times. It is possible.

I know it's a random thought but does anyone one else wonder about these things? Of course it's not one of those topics that should keep you awake at night or make you miss that important meeting because you need to sit around and ponder this thought, but it is an interesting topic. I don't believe I've ever done anything that will be remembered in the history books for 200 years to come but maybe one day I will, maybe one day you will.

Anyway the next thing on my mind was reading about today three hundred years from today. I love reading about the Revolutionary War or the Crusades but will people in three hundred years love reading about today? Will they think we were crazy? We always read books and think, "Boy they screwed up, I would have done that differently." Will people in three hundred years think the same thing? Probably. We always think we would have done it better, but the truth of it is when we read history we get to see the whole picture. Back then they could only see what was behind and what was directly in front of them, and nothing more. And the same goes for us today.

Sometimes I laugh when archeologist dig up random artifacts and hold them up and say "This was such-and-such a great thing when such-and-such a person did something amazing!" I often look at random things of today and wonder what crazy archeologist in 500 years is going to find that and hold it up and come up with a completely random, crazy explanation of what it is and what it did and who it was that had to take care of it. Do we find these artifacts and totally mess up what they actually were and what they actually did? Sometimes I wonder...

Those were my random thoughts of the morning. Thank you.



This is a head. Maybe it some great leader, or a priest. Maybe it was standing in the middle of the castle and was seen by everyone who passed by, and everyone who passed by knew it who it was and was in awe. Or maybe it was just an ordinary fellow who was wealthy and wanted to have a statue made of him and it stood in his house and nobody really saw it except for his wife and kids and grandkids. Who knows?