Ok. So, I’m a bit of a dreamer and a Romantic…and I got thinking today about some of the most memorable moments that must have occurred in history…
These are just a handful of the events that I wished I could have witnessed…
1. Placement of the gilded capstone at the Pyramid of Giza as a throng of fellow Egyptians gasped in awe (2560 BC)…
2. The look of determination as one dignified lady (Rosa Parks) held her seat on that bus-load of white people in December, 1955.
3. The decommissioning and demolition of the Berlin wall as thousands of people gathered and scrambled about to support freedom and unity (1989).
4. The first orbit of earth in a shuttle (April 12, 1981). To actually circle Our great, swirling, blue-planet in a tiny tin can of a shuttle would reduce me to tears…
5. The birth of my very first male and female ancestors (Adam, Eve, alien grandmama!?) (???? BC). Just curious!
6. The final brush-strokes applied to the Mona Lisa. Da Vinci must have been grinning rather broadly at the time…(circa 1519).
7. The discovery of fire. Imagine the shock and amazement on Homo erectus’ weather-beaten face when (s)he realises that (s)he no longer has to eat RAW skunk!
8. The end of all of the major world wars – Vietnam, WW I, WW II…
Darn-it! Don’t you just wish you had a time-machine?
1 response so far ↓
AnthonyNorth // December 14, 2007 at 8:33 am |
Only problem is, if we had a time machine, we’d be too tempted to change those moments