PHOTO PROMPT- © Sandra Crook
HISTORY LESSON
Milos came to America as a teen, intending to become rich and famous. He worked hard, always thinking about returning to his home for a visit.
Hard work alone guaranteed neither riches nor fame. Sometimes you needed a little bit of luck. His first chance to return to beautiful Zagreb came with a small lottery win.
Many Americans were so immediate. They had no sense of history. They thought ‘old’, was yogurt past its best before date.
There were buildings on this quiet street which had been erected over three different centuries, two of those before the United States existed.
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
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Archon's Den 
Perfect illustration of what we in the ‘New’ World don’t get about our own history, often.
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It’s so easy to get so involved in ‘what we are’ that we lose sight of ‘what we were’ to get here. 🙂
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interesting story! Great job
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Thanx guy. Not a lot of my stuff is ‘deep’, but I usually try to make at least one small point. 🙂
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It’s one of the reasons we were happy to send our daughter to Europe as part of a college class. We have no history that compares with this.
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America’s got some great stuff, but if you can afford it, nothing compares to the ‘depth’ of the Old World. 🙂
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Too bad that many don’t see it, but further south, there is ‘old’ in the Americas, too. Great story.
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St. Augustine, FL is 450 years old, but that’s a siesta in Europe. 😉
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🙂 I was thinking of Aztec and Mayan buildings, they would be a tad older.
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Yes, indeed they would. Darn, I’m guilty of profiling. ‘Americans don’t know anything about anything, outside their country, sometimes their county!’ You can’t be talking about those. Or you’re not really American – am I profiling again. 😕
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Oh yes … we in the New World don’t have a good understand of old.
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But you are probably better than most. Ahhh, Italy. 😀
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The analogy to “yogurt past its.. date” is so apt ! Nice story!
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That was the shortest time-span item I could think of for humor/contrast. 🙂
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North America will never be as old as Europe!
I was so into your story I got totally confused by the last paragraph: “Go to Rochelle’s…” 😛
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I always leave two lines between the actual story and Rochelle, but the WordPress program ignores it, and single spaces. I should remember to format it
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like this. 😳
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Hee hee… I only mentioned it because I was so engrossed in your story I got momentarily confused. Like…wha??? 😉
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Indians are lucky to inherit a rich past.
Yes your right in saying hard work needs a streak of Lady Luck.
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A little luck never seems to hurt. Sometimes we have to accept the bad history with the good. A local artist wanted to clutter a section of the soccer field in the downtown park with statues of 23 of Canada’s Prime Ministers, including the first, who sewed the country together. A great statesman, but he was also racist, and a drunk. 😯
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I love a good history lesson. Well told.
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You can’t please everyone, but I seem to please a small group of nice people. Thanx. 🙂
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I love history, and all things old. Would love to visit such ancient places. Very well told.
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I would too, but the wife’s health and our bank account are both none too strong. We’ll have to settle for the internet, I guess. 😛
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I can feel the homesickness in your character’s heart. I have many times mourned the way my country seems to disregard the old in favor of the new.
All my best,
MG
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Not every old thing was good, or should be preserved, but we often get so focused on keeping what we have, we forget the structure of the past that produced it. Thanx for reading. 🙂
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We who are surrounded by history tend to take it for granted mostly.
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We once had the time to enjoy life, and the things around us. Now life is so busy and crowded that we don’t even understand it, much less appreciate it. 😯 Thanx for stopping by.
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Thank you for liking my poem Churchy Lurchy on my blog WordMusic. I can always use the applause!
Brent Kincaid
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