Has your mom ever said, ” We need to respect our history, and enforce our heritage?” Well in today’s short story we will see what the outcome will be when people forget their heritage. Too often, we young folk, forget our history and lose respect for our heritage.
There is a humble family that has a rich and diverse heritage, including everybody being able to sew. But they soon lost that. But one family member still does. Dee, when visiting her family, want to take a couple of items. She wants to take a bench and some quilts. Now, these are no regular items, they are full of heritage, the bench being carved by a grandad, and the quilt by a grandma.
You may wonder what is so special about this story. Well these items are literally the only thing this family has to remember their history. Again, you may wonder, what is so specail about remembering your heritage? Well sewing was literally in their history. When they lose their heritage, thye lose their sewing history. But let us look at this in aother example.
But let us look at this in another example. We see this in Marco Polo. Marco Polo’s family has a history of being merchants. Marco Polo could easily just say, I want to be a sailor, etc. But he decided to stay true to his heritage and be a merchant, which helped him to see the Mongolian empire.
Today we looked in the example of this short story and saw how losing our heritage is bad and unwise. But in the example of Marco Polo, we see how he stayed true to his heritage and as a result saw many wonders. I our ever-fast growing modern society, it is especially hard to stay true to our heritage. But we must prevail and do our part!