This document discusses how individuals are connected to both the past and future through time. A person's birth places them within the stream of time that overlaps with those born before and after. One can feel connected to past events through their oldest teachers and grandparents, who may remember as far back as World War I and II. In the future, one's grandchildren may indirectly connect to someone alive during World War II when they are 75 years old, nearly 200 years after the war. The document encourages the reader to become aware of their place within the stream of time.
6. Your oldest teachers
and grandparents
connect you to past
events, perhaps as far
away as World War II,
while their parents
may join you to World
War I.
7. When you become older, let us say
seventy five years old (around 2070),
imagine having a personal connection
to World War II!
(Thats like having today a connection
to someone who was around when
President James Garfield was
assassinated! )
8. Your grandchildren, born perhaps
around 2050, will thus have an indirect
connection to someone alive in World
War II when they are 75around the
year 2125! That will be an event nearly
200 years in the past.(Thats like your
grandparents remembering the Battle
of the Alamo! )
9. You are part of the past;
you are part of the future.
