History ...

Couple of days back, one of my colleagues asked me, "Do you know why they teach us history in school??". I replied promptly, "Of course, so that we do not repeat the mistakes made in history!!!". The discussion went on, after all we needed something to discuss, to take our mind of the just about ok food we were eating for lunch. The topic went on, with both of us putting across some or the other anecdotes, details of which I would put across, some other day.

When I was sleeping later that night, I was again struck by that question.

Indeed, if we look around us, we don't really seem to have learnt our history well enough. Or maybe, we think that we are intelligent enough, to not repeat the mistakes and end up overlooking the steps that we take, which result in us repeating mistakes from history. I don't have the patience or the energy to fill up this space with different events. But if every one of us ponders over their past, they would see a lot of mistakes they have repeated.

No wonder there goes a saying that "History repeats itself!!!"