History
Words once said can not be taken back. Deeds done can not be undone. Mistakes made can not be corrected. History can not be changed. The past is gone, we have to us the present which turns to the past with every tick of the clock. Every second we live, every breath we breathe is only but a moment. Each of which defines us, makes us and shapes us and with it the future. Words said, deeds done, mistakes made – lessons learned.
But history is nothing but a record, it is a recollection of moments called memory. And memory is selective, we remember what we chose to and forget what does not appeal to us. History is therefore written not by the actors who are part of the play but by the observers who record the events. Observation, again, is selective. We see what we want to the rest drowns in the sound of the next tick of the clock.
So what we have of the past is not how it unfolded then but how the history books reveal it to us in the present. Lessons learned but forgotten, future shaped but destroyed. Words written but smudged, thoughts spoken but slurred, deeds done but forgotten, mistakes made but amended; history made but written.
