Today’s Truth: History repeats itself
History might just be the most important subject. It also tends to be the subject a lot of people forget about. These days it seems like anything anyone can talk about is math, science… basically it has to fall under the STEM bracket.
Don’t get me wrong, absolutely no shade towards STEM Because that is the way we will progress but it’s also important to acknowledge just how special history is. By educating ourselves about the past and sharing it with the new generations we will stop ourselves from repeating the same mistakes, mistakes that were detrimental back then and will bulldoze the future.
Keeping society growing and moving forward cannot happen without the deep study of history. This involves the study of movements, specifically the activists that led these movements and what they wanted out of it.
Taking a woman studies class in my junior year was definitely one of the best decisions I could have made. The part that stood out to me the most was during the 1910s when women were fighting for suffrage in the United States, and that is where I learned of the activist Sojourner Truth. (Honestly, Truth was such an amazing person that I could write a full blog post just on her so I might just wait to do that before I do a full deep dive on her.)
To lightly summarize what truth would Speak about but she basically talked about how women did not have any opportunity to succeed on their own. they had to rely on someone else their whole life and there was no way they would be able to form their own careers.
I’m not going to pretend that I spent hours researching different waves of feminism during society but this definitely stuck out to me that I feel like I have an uncanny resemblance to what people are struggling with today, specifically in Pakistan.
My parents moved to America years before I was born so I felt a deep longing for my home country because I never fully got to experience it. I’m so grateful for everything my parents did to get me to the position that I am in and I feel for all the little girls back home that couldn’t have the same experiences as me.
A huge chunk of women in Pakistan are struggling with what Truth was advocating for in America in the 1910s, the ability to pursue a proper career independently. Well we’re very fortunate in the western world that this is not the case for women here, it has not come to a global end.
We can’t keep letting history repeat itself, there’s amazing people in our past that paved the way for our future and Today’s Truth hopes to be one of them. This feeling is where my nonprofit was born from and I can’t wait to go on this journey with all of you and dive deeper into how we’re going to do this.
- Minahil