My historic adventure
If you came here tonight to read about some famous person who did a famous thing, you may be disappointed in my offering this evening. I’m telling you about it, because it makes a real point about what we now consider to be major historical events. Here’s the point: they were once in the future. Everyone of them was either dreaded or looked forward to by people just like us.
So what did I do tonight? I went shopping. No big deal, really. Except that I went shopping at a brand new WalMart. It just opened here in my small town today. We’ve heard rumors of WalMart here since I was in high school, so for 25 years, people have been looking forward to this day, or dreading it. And today, it happened.
Think about some famous people. You know they were born, their mother’s expected them. Most of those mothers had no idea what their children would achieve, but some did. Think about wars. Did any of them start one day unexpectedly? No. Seeds were sown and harvests were reaped, and the fruit was destruction. But folks knew it was coming.
This is how history is made–it comes from today, and tomorrow.
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