I feel that the topic of time is so weird to think about. During the day I just think about time as how much time we have left of class, or how much time till lunch, I cant wait till 5:30 till practice is over. But in the long scheme of things, life evolves over time and we don't normally think about it in that sense. Once the day is over it is old news and we only dream of the next day, and the days to come. Time just keeps going and going and no one stops to take in the present and what is going on. We read about history in school, and I think very little of the population thinks about how generations ahead could be learning about us. Which is strange to think that there is life after us. But time doesn't stop and take a pause when we want it to. It will continue on whether or not we like/ want it to.
I really like how you talk about studying history and how one day we will be studied. I too agree that we get so caught up in the moment that we tend to forget that we are only a small part of a long string of history. Our average 70-90 years on this earth may sound like a lot of time, but it in interesting to think about history because we have the resources to go back in time and study events that have occurred in not that much time. It takes us one history course to learn about 1000 perhaps 2000 years of history, but we never really think about present events that will be studied by future students.
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