defying the norm...

have anyone noticed that so far most of my entries here is more of back tracking and somewhat on a nostalgic approach(at may ganun talaga?!). here goes another one!

I have been reminded of my younger "ME" debating with my tito's(who are just drunk that night that's why they obliged) back in my intermediate days,on what is the significance of studying history. I must admit that it's one of the most boring subject for me. Modesty aside, it wasn't a problem for me to pass this subject though, or maybe that's one reason why i don't put too much heart on it. Or simply i am just not a fan.

As one of my previous teacher told us, "history opens the door to the future". In my tiny mind then, I did not further argue. I accepted that history provides us lessons to learn... it has been our guide... a vision of what maybe in-store for tommorow. Ok fine, in that sense, history have served it's purpose well. On the contrary, aren't we the ones who's creating our own history? So when I hear  someone tells a kid that he/she will have no future, just because the parents have been a failure, and further comments "history repeats itself"... it surely hits my nerves in extremes! duh? stop playing like Nostradamus, HELLO??? your life is not perfect either! and please spare the kid! In this sense, i'd want to hate history.

I have a friend who've been through a very bad relationship, ok let's just say it was traumatic emotionally. Considering that they they've been together for almost a decade and the only thing that's missing is this "certificate of marriage". The guy was my friend's first. So when they broke up, I was surprised how my friend have changed enormously. The thing she believed before was something sacred and special for her, has now become a regular normal "thing". I told her once, that this is not who she really was. But I guess she have been blinded of what she had experienced in the past, that her concept of love, sex and marrige have become blurred and distorted. Should she be blamed? It was all along her choice.... Again, a history that should've been disregarded.

Like in the goverment now, it's like going on circles all over again. Characters have changed but the system is still the same. It seems like everyone have already extended their dismay and oppositions. But did the so-called "history" really made the people learned their lessons? I guess not.

In this perspective, I am not a believer of history. It is not that I disrespect the significant people and the heroes who made history, but on my personal belief, history should distinguished what should be left in the remains of the past from what is real wisdom that should be encrypted for tommorow's direction. 

So what's my point here? Whatever happened in the past is P.A.S.T. You can't conceal, deny or CHANGE it! That is why we have TODAY because you hold the day to make amends, to become better. Now, that becomes a CHOICE not a CHANCE!