Chapter 4

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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing" -Carson McCullers (The Art of Being Human tenth edition, Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, Carson McCullers, Page 70, left margin quote three) 

1860,  The Poet Chatterton,  John Joseph Barker:, Auckland Art Gallery

Once you write something it exists forever unlike us. This is especially true if you post it on the Internet or upload it to any sort of cloud.  It's good to strive to be so influential that you are written about as well. We are all able to discover scientific breakthroughs or make technological advancements for the rest of the world. Hopefully, you go down in written history as a hero and not a villain. Soldiers, Priests, Activists, Politicians will all be remembered forever in the common world, for the best or worst

When you write it doesn't have to be about something that's currently happening or philosophy you believe in. Journals and Diaries become popular to historians in the future to note how people in the past acted. So why not go ahead and be remembered in history as you are! They may even teach about you in a class one day. Even if its something like creative writing that serves no purpose but a creative outlet for you writing is an amazing pastime and can be enjoyed by others. We don't need stories about magic and fantasy themes but the public idolizes them. You can be an amazing author even if it is not popular in your time period.

Personally, I don't feel the need to be remembered in history I just want to be able to make an impact in some peoples lives. Which is fine not everyone fears being forgotten. Your name could live on by verbal stories portraying your kind or rude deeds. Being written about isn't the only way to stop being forgotten. But there is so much writing nowadays that being written about or writing may never be seen again. With technology, there is an abundance of information.

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"The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten." -Dame Edith Sitwell (The Art of Being Human tenth edition, Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, Dame Edith Sitwell, Page 74, left margin quote two)

1887,  The young adventures, France, Charles Théodore ((Frère Bey) Frère

When we grow older we are taught that a lot of our normal wants and emotions are wrong and shameful. Whether that be from religion or social norms we change and forget how we use to act.

What the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said about Christianity applies to this very well. He often spoke about how it was wrong that Christianity taught you that your natural emotions of envy were wrong and that you must suppress and ignore them. To be an obedient person meant to be mindlessly submissive to one that you hate. These are not our natural instincts and not how we naturally feel.

Poetry can take all that hidden emotion that you have bawled up and express it without shame. It's easy to break apart our beliefs at times and point out the flaws in them by simply using words and rhymes. Poetry sometimes makes us sit and evaluate what we are reading and like a lot of writing it shows us a new perspective.

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"The storyteller takes over to recount the event, and this is the one who survives, who outlives all the others. It is the storyteller in fact that makes us what we are." -Chinua Achebe (The Art of Being Human tenth edition, Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, Chinua Achebe, Page 92, left margin)

1849-1896ish, English: The storyteller, Ricardo Villegas Cordero

Stories are made from wonder and are remembered for generations. There are many families that pass down their own family or communities stories as well as making urban legends.The stories outlive those who tell them and carry the message or moral with them. Take fairy tails as an example. Originally tales like Cinderella and Snow White were just tales passed down from generations (and eventually written out by the Grimm brothers) and are still well known today. Although pieces of the stories were changed to fit a new generation and make it more digestible they still exist. The violence in both of the stories were lowered so they resonate with modern families they still have the same overall plot. In Cinderella, it is a mistreated stepdaughter who finds her prince charming at a ball. The main differences is small things like her stepsister's eyes not being picked out by birds or her stepmother being forced to wear burning shoes until she died as punishment. These tales long outlived those who first told them and the same can be said for many tales.

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