History of History

One thing I've learnt about history is that there is no single truth. Passed through many hands and flowing past ages has in a sense deteriorated or created multiple versions of history. Be it related to the battle of Alexander and Porus or existence of kings like Ram and Krishna.

There are many factors contributing to this. It depends a lot on the way history has been passed to us. It has flown through centuries in form of stories with addition of human element in every generation it passed through. There is the truth, then there is perception of the story teller and then there is a way the listener understands it and pass it on. What could happen to the fact after it passes through this path doesn't need an explanation.

Many a times, facts are changed or suppressed for the reasons of faith, purity, fear and many such factors. These historical versions are then referred as controversies, but there is always a widely accepted fact promoted by the book. People also sometimes create controversies just to make a difference or the way they feel about the fact.

Religions also has a major part to play in this disturbance. Invasions have caused most harm to history by destroying the documents and pieces of art. Just because the ancient documents preached something that the invader's religion didn't promote was considered false and a threat at the same time. That shows the weakness of the religion and also demonstrates how to
finish something from roots.

As I mentioned that there is no single truth and it's very much evident from examples around, the best approach towards all these versions is to listen to all the and either try to create your version of truth or just make a note of all the versions and confuse others for fun. ;-)

Where did time go?

In the list of most popular one-liners, "I didn't had time" would not be too far in ranks. It is commonly heard from many people surrounding you including friends, relatives, colleagues etc. I sometimes ask people about where did their time go and get just a smile in reply. Sometimes its genuine but most of the times I think its because

1) We ignore - Complete a boring training; Cleaning the store room; Calling distant relatives once in a while

2) We forget and then we lie - Calling a friend or relative on a birthday; Something we promised and didn't do

3) We lie to ourselves - When we say to our self that I'm really very busy. ;-)

4) We never prioritize - Writing about an incident that impacted you; Taking backup of your hard drive; Taking family out for a picnic

Many a times we leave small things for later instead of addressing those at the moment. I've realized that we can bring down the number of occasions when we have to say "I didn't had time" just by finishing those little tasks then and there. If something's left for later, there is a good chance that it'll be sitting somewhere low in your "To Do List" or you'll never get back to it. Those who manage it well are wasting their time reading this article. :)

Other way of handling the not-so-important but need-to-be-handled tasks is to pick a few on a daily basis and give them a fixed amount of time. Here you need to remember what is to be done, for which you need to maintain a "To Do List". Its important that the list is kept up-to date. This article is my example of implementing what I've wrote here.:)