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Living witness: History in front of your eyes


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I just realized something today, The au bon pain had completely closed down at Harvard square.

 

I haven't gone to the harvard bookstore in ages, lot's of things getting mixed up in my life and probably a little too much GA soapbox stuff as well. If I had gone down there like I had in the past, I'd noticed the place had changed as I wanted to grab a sandwich after work.

 

I also didn't realize that a starbucks had opened right near the train station (seriously, there's a starbucks right at the corner of the Lowes movie theater like two blocks away)

 

Why didn't I notice these things?

 

I've walked the streets of Cambridge for years now, I've probably passed Mark Zuckerberg at least once without knowing it was him, when I was a teenager. This area was where I enjoyed grabbing a bite to eat and watching a movie or going to the performing arts theatre down the street.

 

My history professor once said that history in the making usually goes unnoticed by those around it; maybe he's right. I've been so wound up in my job, my love life that goes nowhere, and these endless debates, sometimes I don't realize what's been changing around me.

 

There's probably changes around everyone here too, they just need to take a moment and look at the things around them and take stock in it. Maybe, it will create new perspective and new observations.

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History in the making usually doesn’t go unnoticed by those around. It's true we do not always realize immediately the importance of each movement of history. But it suffices to open our eyes and be ever attentive to the life of the world to see how fast the world is changing today.

 

Young people tend to live in the moment, without worrying too much about the future of the world. They lack hindsight that would enable them to appreciate the value of small facts heralding major changes.

 

Knowing how to observe the events around is a quality that is acquired with time and age. What is happening right now in the USA and in the rest of the world should leave no one indifferent.

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I have a different outlook on things. I may be young, and not know the kind of stuff, you guys know.

I haven't left my place in a year and a half now. I have no clue, what is going on out there, apart from what I see on the news. I'm too far away from anywhere, to even have anything local.

I can climb a hill and look at a main road through binoculars.But there is no sound to go with what i'm seeing.

My everyday sounds are animals my own and wild. Baz's truck pulling in and out. The sound of my tractor or the gate bell telling me someone is there.

My outside world is through the eyes of other people. Be that real time or TV. It's all I have.

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I think most people have, at least part of, their heads up in lala land without ever realizing it. Books, music, movies, etc keep entertaining us with all these fascinating people, places and events its hard not to think about them and compare it our own reality and think how much reality sometimes sucks. To cope with it or even just to live with a little bit of a better satisfaction, I think most of us keep a foot inside that fantasy land of how we think things should be, who we're suppose to see, what we're suppose to find in everyday life and forget to take in what actually is, what we do see, and what we do find

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