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Jan. 10th, 2005
Jan. 10th, 2005 11:15 pm
Fortune 500
Yours is a perpetually hungry mind. You devour every aspect of History in order to understand the past, the present, and even the future. You've memorized relevant dates, battles, heroes, and significant events. And yet, you are strangely unsatisfied. There are nights when you gaze up at the stars and wish you were either born later or you could extend your life long enough to travel into the void and even beyond it. You often feel as if there is so much to learn and not enough time to do so.
You take this hunger into your personal relationships, wanting to know every detail, every event, every dream and desire of your partners. But often you become frustrated when you hit the bottom of their own curiosity, their own awareness of a world outside themselves. This makes you think most people are shallow and lack the necessary curiosity to fully explore the deep mysteries of life. You are always settling for less in a relationship, if you stay. More than likely, you simply walk away out of boredom and lack of mental stimulation.
Your lesson in this life is to slow down and take a closer look. The ability to see many stones in a pond is not the same as examining one stone carefully to see how it compares with the other stones. You have a tendency to generalize, to string together one set of facts and apply them to another, completely different situation. Learn to see each thing as itself, contributing to itself, growing itself, becoming itself. If you do this, History will begin to make sense to you. It will no longer seem like so many bewildering beads hastily strung together in desperation to make a necklace, any necklace, from the pieces threatening to overflow their boundaries.
Your task is to approach your passion for History from another angle. Read novels from times of interest. Study what philosophers emerged during a specific series of events. Examine the art, music, and dramas which grew out of unique situations in time. And most important of all, accept that in your lifetime you will not learn, live or experience everything. But you can make up for it by learning, living and experiencing everything fully and completely.You will certainly discover that everything complex is made up of hundreds, even thousands of separate, simple pieces. All of History is a circle leading back to itself.
You take this hunger into your personal relationships, wanting to know every detail, every event, every dream and desire of your partners. But often you become frustrated when you hit the bottom of their own curiosity, their own awareness of a world outside themselves. This makes you think most people are shallow and lack the necessary curiosity to fully explore the deep mysteries of life. You are always settling for less in a relationship, if you stay. More than likely, you simply walk away out of boredom and lack of mental stimulation.
Your lesson in this life is to slow down and take a closer look. The ability to see many stones in a pond is not the same as examining one stone carefully to see how it compares with the other stones. You have a tendency to generalize, to string together one set of facts and apply them to another, completely different situation. Learn to see each thing as itself, contributing to itself, growing itself, becoming itself. If you do this, History will begin to make sense to you. It will no longer seem like so many bewildering beads hastily strung together in desperation to make a necklace, any necklace, from the pieces threatening to overflow their boundaries.
Your task is to approach your passion for History from another angle. Read novels from times of interest. Study what philosophers emerged during a specific series of events. Examine the art, music, and dramas which grew out of unique situations in time. And most important of all, accept that in your lifetime you will not learn, live or experience everything. But you can make up for it by learning, living and experiencing everything fully and completely.You will certainly discover that everything complex is made up of hundreds, even thousands of separate, simple pieces. All of History is a circle leading back to itself.