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History is most certainly our teacher for without history how then are we to learn from our mistakes of the past? Alongside history goes hindsight, the two are connected and cannot be separated. How many times have we heard someone say, if they could do such a thing over again then they would have done it in a different way? When we sit back and really take a look at our past can we really say we learned anything? We most certainly can, and because we have learned, we thank the past for that. With history comes experience and with experience comes hindsight.

What would happen if we did not have history?

If we did not have history, if our lives, or the life of this world was not recorded and seared into our memories, then we, I believe, would continue to make the same mistakes over and over. You could well say that mankind, - even with our blood-ridden past - has learned nothing from the past, so what is the point of history? With all the bloodshed and death around us then truly, what have we learned? We have learned that violence begets violence. An eye for an eye until the whole world becomes blind in a mayhem of orgy and destruction.

Throughout time if there is one thing that history has taught us it is this: That we must continue to look back to the past in order to work and strive for a better future for ourselves, our children and the creatures and other life forms that share this world with us. Without history as our teacher - which it most certainly is - then we would continue to fall by the wayside. History is our guide. It does not tell us what to do but rather it shows us graphic examples of what did go wrong when we chose the wrong path.

To have those facts in our hands and to read and see them for ourselves - and yet, to stay blind to the facts - makes us the bigger fools. Pity the fool who refuses to see the events of the past. Pity the fool who moves on ever forward with the attitude that what happened yesterday could not happen today? For the ripples of history always come back to haunt us in the present day.

History is our teacher in so many ways guiding us into choosing the right path, the right way, in our personal lives - and also the life of the world as a whole. History, whether we like it or not, is a stark recorder {teacher} of events that happened yesterday, or so many years before. Gently guiding us onto the right pathway, subtly urging us not to make the same mistakes we made in the past, Yet always allowing us to have free will to be able to pick the way we choose.

But if we do then we must reap what we sow, reap the consequences of our actions. History does repeat itself, but only if we allow the mistakes we made in the past to rise up and happen again. That could be not just in our own personal lives but for politicians and world leaders too, who send countless thousands to war on their behalf {as has happened so many times before in the past.}. They could do no better than to look back at history and to really learn from the errors of their ways.

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