The start of this class
has really opened my eyes and spiked my interest in our world history. To
begin, I never looked at the world in a way that the stars are technically our
brothers and sisters. I didn’t realize that people thought of the world in that
way. At first, I had this funny look on my face as if to say, “What are you
even talking about?” Plants, trees and stars are not our relatives but when you
think about I can see how that could be true. The first thing that popped into
my head while listening to the lecture and then reading the text was religion.
I started to think about what religious people thought of this idea. It really
makes me want to read more into it. Although I enjoy learning about religions
and find them fascinating, I personally am not religious so it’s very
interesting to me to learn about different takes about how human nature came
about.
Another topic that
really blew my mind was the fact that there used to be different human species
before us. Maybe I sound stupid or ignorant for not knowing this or thinking
that we are the only humans to walk this earth, but I truly had no idea. I’ve
taken countless history classes in my educational career, as they are required,
but never have I ever learned that there were different human species. For some
reason, this took me by surprise and became extremely fascinated with this fact
and want to learn more. I’ll have to admit that I personally was dreading this
class. History has never been a class that I wanted to take but I do think that
it has been the way that it was taught to me in the past. Just by the lecture
alone I could tell that I wouldn’t dread this class and the reading wasn’t as
difficult as I thought it would be. I look forward to learn more about where we
came from and possibly where we are headed.
