Who am I? Part 7
If you’re not sure what’s going on here, please read this first.
Who am I?
I’m a history buff. I’m fascinated by what has happened in the past. I’ve never been able to understand people who don’t find history as interesting as I do. A lot of what draws me to philosophy holds true for history, I think. I really like to see an orderly progression and development; cause and effect, in hindsight, makes a lot of events appear inevitable. It’s the same for philosophy, I think. One thinker building ideas off of another’s ideas, and on and on and on. Recent history is interesting to me, but I’m mainly fascinated by ancient history. The beginnings of civilizations, the rise and fall of groups of people. The ability to look back at fateful decisions and trends and say “that was the moment they sealed their fate”. I don’t know… People have this tendency to look at me funny when I try to explain this to them.
Anyway, had I been thinking when I was in college, I think I would have probably been better off majoring in history. I’d be a professor by now, I’m sure of it. No use rehashing why I picked philosophy, really. It was interesting to me at the time, but I wasn’t nearly as good at it, if that makes sense. I can’t see myself as a philosophy professor, but I can definitely see being a history teacher. The interest level has remained high throughout my life thus far.
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For posterity’s sake, since very few people read this, I took a couple weeks off to finish up my MBA (one week for finals, which didn’t go as well as I would have hoped, and one for a capstone and graduation). But, I’m back now and will hopefully post on a fairly regular basis.
