𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆

𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆𝒔

𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆𝒔—-𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒚-𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆

Playing Rat by Penelope Scott

I have a question for you.

What do we learn from history?

I mean we learn about kings and queens.

We learn about people in power.

We learn about people who spoke power.

We learn about wars and historical fall outs.

We learn about discrimination from how we look to how we act.

We learn the actions of people in power that changed us.

We learn so much, don't we?

Someone stood up for this cause.

Someone spoke up about this situation.

Someone sat down for rights.

But you know,

The important thing is

History tells us the past

History helps us to learn

To understand

To change

To be better.

History shows our collective mistakes and shows us how to learn.

But it isn't everyone?

We change

Maybe as a collective. Maybe not.

But some of us still stay, their clock is frozen.

They don't learn.

They don't understand.

They don't change.

They don't want to be better.

Maybe that's why the world's how it is now.

It's gone to shit.

And why?

Because we don't learn.

We don't understand.

We don't change, do we?

We don't want to be better.

Because if we did,

The world wouldn't be collapsing.

We wouldn't be near extinction.

We would be feeling the sun on our skin.

We would be staying up late to walk in the moonlight.

We never learned and that's why the world is in flames.

Maybe it's time we do.

Maybe when the disaster does actually strike we will learn.

We will understand.

We will change.

We will want to be better.