The Historical Event

An event cannot enter into a history until it has been established as fact....A stereotypical comment, in my opinion! Facts exist the way they are. History doesn’t make a fact a fact, only because it is just a subject under which it is established. History tells a story using these existing facts only to make an impact on the reader. When we talk about history, it isn’t always “factful” because it is true that people who interpret it tell the story in million other ways. Its never stationary, specially in today’s world when our generation forms a mix of different people from different backgrounds.

Every year the history of events change maybe through form, chronology, thought, place, etc – its never constant. But, it has been understood that change, doesn’t happen to history, but it happens to the facts that lead to making history. Talk about a fort which is about 3000 years old – the history of the place has already happened, but whats happened after that? Thats what our generation should be questioning at this moment.

What is the difference between historical past and practical past? Some say its one of the same, but its not really the point. Practical past is something more personal, something which you or me see in our memories, something thats vague or there or not there, something that isn’t the so called “constant” historical past, like planning a party or a crime case at law. Historical past is something to do with what happened in those days. Something that we don’t face in our minds, something thats totally different from what we think. Its more like studying what happened then probably from a book or from the web.

How should history be told? In my opinion, the whole idea of writing the past should evolve with time, as modern philosophers would prefer doing something scientific rather than the traditional way of portraying history by dramatising it. The telling of history should be done faster and more interestingly instead of mere pages and pages of type. Since science is almost accurate, it can applied in telling a story of the past by finding what is THE fact thats creating the story!