For some reason, I recently started for the first time really appreciating
history. Until now, but mostly long ago, History had been yet another class where
I had to pretend I was learning things.
Recently I found myself walking through a nearby town, really
trying to picture people 100-200 years ago walking the very same streets I now was,
all of them caught up in their lives and the lives of their friends and family,
trying to make a living, maybe making plans for an upcoming holiday. All the same things people have been doing on those same streets right up through today.
Maybe it isn’t a coincidence that I am appreciating history so much more now, considering I've been around for so much of it. After all, it recently hit me that I’ve been around for more than a quarter of this country’s existence.
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