Looking at history

Post 4.

At this moment, I should be studying history. Instead I'm telling myself I'm 'taking a little break' while I've been on my laptop for the past hour. So to calm myself a bit down, I'm going to discuss our history. 

When I went trough my book, I couldn't stop wondering about why I should study this. I mean; the men and women in there are already dead for the past 500 years so who the hell cares? 

But then I thought that that was exactly what a young person of my age would say and because I like to stand out a bit (yes, I admit that), I thought a little furter. 

I guess it's useful to learn about Einstein and all the things he discovered. I guess it's useful to know what happened in both of the world wars. But what I'm asking myself: who decides which events becomes history? Does it have to be such an enormous event that it changes the world? Or is it something else?
Then I wondered: if there's a person in this world, right now, that wants to make history; what should she or he do? The biggest names in our history are surely Hitler or Napoleon and they both started a big war. But violence can't be the only way to make yourself rememberable, 'cause there were some big scientists and great thinkers out there too and we all remember their names. 

I always thought that people would remember me by the books I'm going to write. But surely they will never be as good as the classics, so the chance that people in the future will never know anything about me is pretty big. 

And I kinda wish I could change that. I kinda wish that everyone could be immortal. Not physical, but moral. 

I kinda wish that no one ever would be or will be forgotten completely. 

Then I have to remind myself that wishes mostly just stay what they are: wishes. And that makes me kinda sad.