What makes historical spots/places attractive to us
As I traveled to Aurangabad for my sightseeing tour, this question puzzled and made me cogitate on the urge that drives people to visit ancient sites.
What is it that makes historical sights,monuments,etc still so attractive to us?Haven't we, the space age humans, made progress so much that history should become redundant by now. Then why do we see droves of people in such places.I saw bus loads of people from almost all parts of India reaching these far flung places and gawking at the murals,sculptures,etc with awe struck wonder. Some seemed to listen very carefully to the guides tale and many asked questions related to that period and otherwise. The young brigade were of course seeking out places and positions for 'the' pics and obviously FB posts. Even so it was wonderful to see people actually stop to think about what and how our ancestors were.
I'm sure these places are simply not visited for chilling out or for photo ops(though the opportunities abounded).
Then what is it? The thirst to seek out the past must surely be related to the present, or is it only intertwined to our future.I think that in our mad rush to seek and secure our future we have somehow forgotten our present. We tend to evaluate everything to our past and scramble to make our future better than that.In the process we forget to live our present!
Another reason could be curiosity.Or maybe solace that we get far from the madding crowds,a few days respite and soon.
Readers, you be the judge.............
As I traveled to Aurangabad for my sightseeing tour, this question puzzled and made me cogitate on the urge that drives people to visit ancient sites.
What is it that makes historical sights,monuments,etc still so attractive to us?Haven't we, the space age humans, made progress so much that history should become redundant by now. Then why do we see droves of people in such places.I saw bus loads of people from almost all parts of India reaching these far flung places and gawking at the murals,sculptures,etc with awe struck wonder. Some seemed to listen very carefully to the guides tale and many asked questions related to that period and otherwise. The young brigade were of course seeking out places and positions for 'the' pics and obviously FB posts. Even so it was wonderful to see people actually stop to think about what and how our ancestors were.
I'm sure these places are simply not visited for chilling out or for photo ops(though the opportunities abounded).
Then what is it? The thirst to seek out the past must surely be related to the present, or is it only intertwined to our future.I think that in our mad rush to seek and secure our future we have somehow forgotten our present. We tend to evaluate everything to our past and scramble to make our future better than that.In the process we forget to live our present!
Another reason could be curiosity.Or maybe solace that we get far from the madding crowds,a few days respite and soon.
Readers, you be the judge.............
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