People do silly things in search of a legacy. The postman who brings my letters hasn’t read none of the names that will be remembered, eventually. There’s fame in anonymity. History is written with hindsight, by those who have a plan for the future. They mend it, bend it like Beckham, and even someone like him won’t pass the test of time. Few graves are built for eternity. Most of us find it even hard to keep track of what’s happening in the lives of their immediate relatives, even if they live nearby. There are borders to family stories that seem to be marked at three generations, four at most. Even royals, whose blood lines are documented up to many centuries ago, have no clue about who those ancestors really were beyond a name and a date of birth and death. History is a verb written in the present tense, and it starts now…
Sunday, 14 March 2010
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3 comments:
nicely written!
and that was nice of you to write that...
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