@Lejay28 30 April 2021

History Outside Books

How was your day guys? Feeling good? Heheh Enjoy reading! ___"**HISTORY OUTSIDE BOOK"___** ***History has its own multiple meanings*** ***and functions. Unfortunately, I am not a*** ***brilliant mind nor an authority of*** ***history to discuss them in a scholarly*** ***manner. But what is truly clear to me is*** ***that history is written, especially in*** ***those books which recorded series of*** ***momentous events with dates and black*** ***and white or dark and gray colored*** ***pictures.*** ***Back in the early years of formal*** ***education, I was only compelled to open*** ***a history book mainly for the reason of*** ***compliance. Sometimes, I sluggishly*** ***browsed it to lull myself to rest on the*** ***pretext of studying. A clear indication of*** ***being not serious with my studies. I*** ***could still remember the rare times*** ***when I open a history book and read it,*** ***but totally a waste of lengthy time since*** ***I was more captivated with its drawings*** ***and pictures. In short, I did not clearly*** ***understand the essential messages of*** ***the history book.*** ***In the later years, I slowly realized that*** ***history is not only found written in*** ***books, nor a series of recorded events in*** ***articles, journals, pamphlets, or*** ***elsewhere. It is also outside of the*** ***written world. Right before life-*** ***changing historical moments, such as*** ***revolutions, were made into texts,*** ***history was always present. Outside the*** ***huge walls of the academe history was*** ***felt a million times from countless*** ***exploits, especially those times of messy*** ***struggles for a free and just society.*** ***History will be made right even before it*** ***becomes jotted on any piece of paper.*** ***If this can be held true, why wait for history to be written? History is history because at one stage there were people who made it real before it became present in books.*** **Thank you! Hope you like it!**