Timeless

 

(With thanks to all the "Toraettes" for the triggered prompt)

Our cultural memories are often older than we have lived;
human, inherent, lifesaving in-the-DNA memories even older.

History is only partially memory, the rest is made up of influence, opinion, and desire;
to the winner goes the narrative and the spoils

Word-of-Mouth family and national histories; Generation to Generation, L’dor V’dor, whether by repeated family tales or patrilineage and matrilineage
by the recitation of names back through unwritten records

Our individual chronicles of nation, family, or sect are how we teach and learn.

History is not precise, memory is fallible; words and meanings transform;
narrations alter; so, must then the conversation.

History is an amalgam of misremembered observations;
it is a retrospective, even if written from accounts inscribed during an event

History, even if derived from multiple factions is mutable

Knowledge changes, information adapts, understanding and awareness rarely keep up.

Opinions are not fact, people are not without fault, and today’s certainty is tomorrow’s doubt.

The only demonstrable fact is change is constant and timeless.

Ronda R. Scott-Marak
© 11 August 2020