History repeats itself on a loop, until the desired change takes place.
What is needed is a change in our attitude, a desire to do things differently and to empathise, using the past as a lesson to learn from, and get the answers for our present decisions. Wisdom is granted to those who search for it, and when we study history, we learn and evolve.
Any decision not rooted in love and compassion, results in chaos. Greed begets greed, and history repeats its mistakes, until someone has the courage to think differently from the herd, and value the heart and the head’s balanced answer. Too much head, and we become cruel, and too much heart and we become naive.
Life is a struggle to balance these two extreme emotions : detachment and attachment, to see the greys, to come up with something that is maybe shown in a small chapter of history that might seem inconsequential, but has more lessons to teach us than the most heroic tales. Most times the answer is simple, but we tend to dismiss it off for complicated ones, just to feel worthy of it. But, it is more difficult to be simple, because that means we have to keep pride and greed aside, two traits that make us fools of our own making, repeating folies of the greats and the simpletons alike.
When in doubt, check the pages of history, and see how each decision we make showed similar consequences. Ask history professors or hobbyists, for wisdom, because there is nothing that has not already happened, so instead of re-living the same mistakes, be bold and do what is something that not only you feel is right, but is right in the eyes of an innocemt child. People tend to take what they want from the past, and that is not wisdom, it is just using history as a weapon to derive your own conclusions, that which is no different from the many events that had taken place in the past. In letting go of one’s own desires and by being open to learn, we transcend our own limitations, breaking the cycle of unending repeats.
Every political, professional or personal decision should be an informed decision, a decision that has been well debated, pondered and read about. Any decision taken impulsively without any forethought, is like throwing stones in a pond hoping that it will hit a fish. An impulsive decision gambles not with just the outcome but gives precedence to our decisions in the future. And if that stone had indeed hit a fish, like the legendary ‘hole in one’ odds, it gives us false hope, sowing the seeds of gambling our lives on fate and luck, disregarding logic and intuition .
