ἱστορία

My father always told me "to know your history is to properly anticipate your future".

With his intense hunger for knowledge and exhaustive collection of books, some of which he even authored, the significance of knowledge and history is something that I could not escape even if I wanted to growing up.

Pictured above, Im reading a book entitled Unfinished: Believing is only the Beginning by Richard Stearns which journeys into ones purpose in life, but thats another subject. Over the years, we've read and discussed an array of books. One book in particular that I remember growing up is Alex Haleys's best-seller, Roots.

The story of Roots accounts the authors African ancestry traversing nearly a century back to Kunta Kinte who, born a free man, was captured and sold into slavery at the age of seventeen. Following Kinte and his descendants, Roots touches on the cruel realities of slavery in America while simultaneously showing the triumphant evolution of a family all the way from slave to best-selling author.

As the son of an author myself, I've inevitably gained a love for attainment of knowledge. Im also fully aware of what the generations before us had to go through in order for us to be able to lead the lives we choose today.

Our forefathers laid the building blocks for who we are today. Its only right to ensure the foundation we are laying now for the future be just as solid as the one that was built for us.