Blog Post 1: Quotation on Writing

"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs." - David Ben Gurion

You can't change history, it's preached everyday in millions of classrooms around the world. You can't change the fact that you were born to your parents or your strange relatives either. But, if you actually took the time to write down events in your life, I'm sure you would juice it up or play it down just a little bit. Would you write that you wrecked your family van into a parked flat bed pick-up while talking on the phone, or would you write that the brakes failed to work and it wasn't your fault? Would you tell that you hold three school basketball records, or would you say that you were and all American? Would you say that your parents are divorced, or would you say that your parents are still happily married? Would you write that you were on the honor roll all four years of high school, or that you had a straight 4.0? Something you don't think about until you start writing down your memoirs. Some people consider these things to be little white lies, true, but, they also are false and did not happen. Which in turn means you are rewriting history. Although this does not change the fact that Christopher Columbus founded the new world in 1492, it still is changing the events that have happened in the past. Which in turn could be considered rewriting history. Your history!

Further more, this quote tends to reach out to the audience in a way that most quotes do not. The purpose here is to make people think. Not only about what it means, but also how they would want people to remember them, and maybe they wouldn't want their audience to know everything about them. Also, it does serve a lot of purpose. To me, this quote is probably one of the best that I've seen. It's simple yet complex. Simple in the sense that its short and sweet and to the point. Complex in the sense that it makes you think almost automatically, "Hm, I wonder what he means?"