The Importance of History

Knowing your history is important, having a future is important, being in the present is important. Scientists say that time may exist all at once and there is no past present or future, but a time space continuum (Einstein and Minkowski). If this is true history is important its the same thing. We can't have one without the other can we? But its important how you make use of history too, because if you let the past drag you down there is no future, on the flip side if you have no history, who are you then? That sense of what has been done and what we're part of is important to people.

The fact that so many Americans have forgotten about Mayday and that it is so pushed aside shows that we have forgotten apart of our past, and it doesn't show up in our present because we haven't acknowledged it or cared to. How Mayday isn't commerated in May shows how important our society is trying to make it, because we remember whats important to us, but we don't remember this, which has a large impact on our lives. The may day riots were an international effort and a labor movement supported all over the world. Its part of our history. What those workers fought for and died for was us, everyday people who just want to have more time to live life. Forgetting that is like forgetting part of ourselves because if it were us at that time period we would do the same. Then maybe someday in the future we will be forgotten as well. So is history neccesary for living a good and meaningful life? I think yes, we all need some kind of history and connection to the past. Its part of who we are, our struggles and our losses, our triumphs, and our victories.

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