Teaser

Let's be real.
5th grade social studies was pretty fun.
Elementary school was pretty fun altogether, but I liked Mrs. Thomas' 5th grade social studies class.

Then in middle school, history class got progressively worse. I don't even know what sixth grade was about. 7th grade we "learned" what Islam was and about the Taj Mahal, and then 8th grade culminated in the dreaded Georgia History Class.

However, without that class, I wouldn't know what an atlatl is.
Very valuable learnage that was.

Then in high school, it got even worse.
There was Coach Connor: "Gorbachev looked like someone pooped on his head."
And AP US History where we had to read A Miracle at Philadelphia Terribly Boring Book. Over the summer.

And then in college, history class was insufferable, with Steinberg's impossible multiple questions that were all like:

Is this a question?
a. most likely
b. probably
c. yes, but with exceptions
d. sometimes
e. none of the above and you probably don't want to pick this one again since the last four questions were this answer

Anyone who's had Steinberg knows what I mean.

Finally after that class, history was, well, history. I was never required to learn about it again.
There was no stupid "History of accounting" because, I guess, accounting's boring enough as it is.
Hardy har har I can laff at my career now

But something is different now.
Now that I'm not forced to learn it or regurgitate it on some test, learning history is actually fun again like it was in 5th grade.

Leverage says you. I feel a change in the wind says I.

I've been learning about church history and reading Joshua and looking at the archaeological and culture stuff surrounding it, and it's interesting in a way that has never been interesting to me before.

Like- do I like history now? Is that okay? Is it okay to like history?
Is it okay to want to know what happened in the past because it has direct implications and symbolism on other stuff?

Something that I had previously dismissed as boring and irrelevant has become increasingly not so.
And I think archetypes are pretty cool.

Read Joshua.

Mark doesn't even need lipstick to make his teeth look white; they just are,
TWS