It is not easy, but then no-one ever said it would be. There are times when even stumbling forward one word at a time, seems more trouble than it is worth. After all, who needs more words? There are words enough, already. There are words for everything, after all. Every new thing too, needs at least one word to name it and hundreds more, sometimes, to describe it.
Each new moment too changes history. Pundits and commentators love to talk about the times that change history, but every moment changes history, history is always changing. Whether or not you have that next cup of coffee, eat that biscuit, smile at, or ignore, the next person you walk past on your morning street, all will change the history of your life. Time is full of moments like that big or small, all changing history into new shapes, and who really knows which are the significant ones.
Time and words are always changing, that is why we will always have new times and new words and why we can only ever go forward and – perhaps – is why history and the past are far too messy for anyone to really go back and change anything.
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