Today in English class we exhibited through a very
interesting topic that overwhelmed me. My teacher noticed how much the
conversation caught my interest and could see me pondering about the importance
of perspectives. I am very open to different point of views which allows me to
be the person who I am but what if we were told one story? That one story is
what everyone believed and there was no other story but that one story. I’m not
sure if I’m making quite sense but this has been nudging in the back of my mind
all day. Today we talked about Nero who is illustrated as one of the worst
emperors due to the reason he was unconventional, killed his mother, wife, and
half brother. However; only one story exists of Nero which was written decades
after Nero died. Tacitus wrote about Nero and Nero’s accounts but the only
thing that exists in this world about Nero is what Tacitus believed. This
alters everything because perspective is the key to how one views life. For instance, while
the Holocaust is a very serious subject, many people were told that the
Holocaust was a hoax and that there were no concentration camps or mass murder.
While there are sufficient evidence, documentation, and 11 million lives that
were lost to prove this account, people were taught differently and continued to
walk on this earth believing that the Holocaust did not occur because of one
single story. Now imagine life if we were told one thing and not the other.
Only look right, there is no left direction. How different would life be? Extremely
different! Think about all of the things that we would miss. The importance of
perspectives lies within the capability individuals maintain; thus believing
that the inevitable is possible and there is no limit. Due to the fact that I
have an African American President and women now run business and corporations
while 100 years ago people were told this was impossible, I believe I can do
anything and this is because of the fact that some individual had a different perspective and took action into altering society.
