HISTORY AND TIME
(August 30, 2022)
Today’s dispensation is bent on changing history and making a
fool of today’s generations and that of the future. One can never re-write
history no matter how one tries. History is over like it or not, accept it or
deny it. You can only wish that people will believe your own narrative of the past,
but you cannot change the facts of the past.
Just because you did not experience it yourself nor believe
it as it is, the facts of yesterday have been written and as it is written
stays for generations to come. A mature and responsible citizen of truth will
respect, accept, analyze, and be critical of the past; but most of all learn
from the lessons it offered. For only when we learn the lessons of the past are
we able to live a more meaningful today so we can pass on to the next
generation a more promising tomorrow.
We have our history. The present is writing its own. The
future is yet to be written. We need to remember though that everything is
intertwined. The future is rooted in what’s happening today, and the present is
a by-product of yesterday. Of course, there are uniqueness and societal
idiosyncrasies in every generation, but we cannot deny the fact that in the
past we found learnings and guidelines on how to make our present a better
world to live in. And from today will spell, not totally perhaps, the future of
the morrow.
The Book of Life never ends. In the book are chapters with
beginnings and endings. But as we write, read, and comprehend every word of
each chapter, we will better understand and feel the spirit as alive in each
word when we know what was written before. Then we read further on in
anticipation of what will happen towards the end of the chapter. A chapter
ends. A new one begins. The saga of life continues.
To enjoy life. We need to learn from it as it unfolds in our
life’s journey starting from the time we were born until the last breath of our
being. There is no denying every second nor every minute because each second
and minute compose the time of our life. And there is no better legacy that we
leave to our loved ones than the truth of history where they will find some
guideposts on how to live their lives better than we have had. As they weave
their own tomorrow, we hope that they will thank us more than they might curse
us for having lived our lives the way we did.
Let us bequeath our children the truth of our time as they
journey into their own time. Time is our friend. The memories of yesterday and
everything that the future holds are all in time. Today we cherish every moment
of time.
Let us not alter time.
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