History: get interested
Believe it or not – and I’m sure you will – but I often come across people who say that history isn’t them. “It’s not cool,” they say or “it’s a load or rubbish,” which I have to admit just plain HURTS. Being a lover of history myself, nothing is more crushing on my heart than someone beating history with a great big stick.
But here’s something you might not realise. YOU DO LIKE HISTORY. That’s right, history pessimist, read those words again as much as you need to. And now, to prove my point, here is well…my point. What else?
You like history because you care about what happened last week in your life, right? And you like memories, yes? If you said Yes to either of those questions then you are a history lover and that is a fact. Everyone is a history lover, see; simply because history is what happened in the past and if you think about it, there’s an awful lot of past.
It tells us what works and what doesn’t, and we can apply that to the present and the future
Of course, the problem comes when trying to explain to people why OLD history is important to them, because on the surface I can see what they are thinking (history is boring as it has nothing in common with the age I live in). And here is the reason: old history is important to us all because it contains a lot of valuable lessons about various things. It tells us what works and what doesn’t, and we can apply that to the present and the future. This is why history matters: without it we’d have nothing of any consequence to learn from, which would mean making lots of mistakes all over again!
For examples of things we can learn from using history, see as follows:
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We can look back in time and see how people solved neighbourly disputes (attacking neighbour with sword) or things like dodgy insurance claims or false horse equine claims during medieval times (such as, “someone stole my stud and it weighed as much as a full apple-loaded-cart!” when really it weighed as much as a large dog).
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We can see what is unsafe and things which need to have an eye kept on them (roofs which are thatched are prone to fire, history tells us).
So really, history is incredible and without it we’d all be in a lot of trouble. If you’re not convinced now then you never will be!
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