Futility of History

Originally posted on Sunday, January 23, 2011 at 1:51pm

Our Histories are scattered like granules of sand at the bottom of the ocean.  Not lost, but unremembered.  No less real....yet no more important than any other sedimentary evidence of others who created; who fought; who breathed; who toiled; who loved; or who died.  The vastness of the sea and the void of space remain the only timeless, remarkable and steadfast witnesses to our fractional existence.  What a burden for an Historian to carry - to care beyond remembering what everyone else chose to forget and what the universe itself makes, if not insignificant, than at least no more brilliant than a burning flame against the sheen of dying stars.