History

I do that all the time. Especially when I go somewhere that has history, like Philadelphia, Pennsylvania or Washington, D.C. I think about Ben Franklin and George Washington and if I am walking in the same steps as them. Then when I went to Washington D.C. I went to the Capital Building and the Lincoln Monument and thought about all the famous people throughout all the years and all of the history there. I would love to be able to go back in a time machine and spend a few days seeing it all first hand. That would be so phenomenal.

That would be a site to see what things looked like back in the day. I guess the only way that you get to see it is when you look at movies or old pictures of how things were back in the day. Just think about it before you had paved roads those same roads use to be dirt or brick ones. Then for transportation horse and buggy. No cars to drive. But now that is a different thing. I guess you have to say that things do take a change over the years but in some places history will always be around to view.

That is why I always do my best to take history classes, or classes where some kind of history is involved in it. I always wonder what life was like before the life we are living in today.

In the town where my parents live that happens to me all the town. The town is really old and there are really old Roman monuments there too includiing the amphitheathre so when I go there and I walk those steets I always think about people who built the amphitheathre and how it must had been for them so many centuries ago when they had to lift all those heavy blockwithout the help of a crane or something like that. And then the gladiators and the fights agains the lions with people who were watching all that. I really wonder how was life then. And then there are all this old postcards where I can see what the town was like 100 and even more years ago and I really wish I can turn back the time to see it the way it originally was.

not really. but i can still imagine what my place looked like when i was still a kid. i remember this road to my secondary school when i was like 5 years old. it'll take us 2 hours to get to the place coz the road is not paved. we have to drive with all windows closed. & it was a bumpy ride & there are no establishments along the way. all you can see are sugarcane farms. when i went there for my high school education, the road was already paved. you can get to the campus in less than 30 minutes. and now, you see a lot of establishments along the way.

Yeh ,in the ancient time ,where i live used to be the capital of ancient Chinese capital ... The city Xi'an ,there, the old wall still stands here.. And it's the capital of China during the Tang Dynasty . When i stand on the wall i always think about the grand history and the military might soldiers standed on the wall ...

Good topic...+ I live in Arizona and not much is here, really. But, there are times when I look at the Phoenix mountain reserves (a whole bunch of mountains that the government owns) and try to picture what the first group of people must have seen when they first crossed over these lands. Were they on their way to California? If so, did they make it?

Yes I enjoy pondering these things and have on several occasions gone so far as to look for pictures of what the town or area looked like. I've done this for more then one area, and I find the information their very amusing. I find that pondering over these things opens up a whole new world around us and in some ways makes us wiser if only for a little while. I also enjoy hearing stories of someone's childhood home or town and will often listen to someone as they narrate how it was for them growing up in that house and how much fun they had doing chores or just playing with siblings. I have even written stories of these experiences I heard about. It brings them to become anew all over again and gives the opportunity to everyone to read about it.

True, I also think a lot of those problem . But I worry about many ancient buildings will lost after hundreds yeas ,if we don't take effective measures to protect them .

I used to frequently visit the ruins of a Spanish fort in old Manila named Fort Santiago. Our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal spent his remaining hours there before he was executed by the cruel colonial government. I would stay there for hours, reminiscing and imagining what took place during that time. A small museum on top of Rizal's prison cell houses his memorabilia. One collection that is interesting is the desk that he used when he taught some boys in Island of Mindanao.