(Note: I use AI to help me translate my stories from Japanese to English.)
My mother and I made small talk over dinner every Monday. Sometimes we talk about people forgotten by history.
We imagine that there must have been people like Buddha or Christ who lived long ago but were never remembered.
I said that there must also have been many innocent people who were executed. We tried to imagine how sad they must have felt. They didn’t do anything wrong, but they were wrongly sentenced to death due to false convictions.
There must have been many people who made great contributions to the world. However, they did so in secret, so nobody knows about them.
We tend to pay attention to superficial things, but history may have been shaped largely by unknown people.
We learned that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built by Pharaoh Khufu. However, unknown people cut the stones and carried them.
It is said that people have both consciousness and an unconscious mind. It is also said that the unconscious mind determines our actions and thoughts. In the same way, unknown people have shaped our history.
I am also an unknown person, but I would like to listen to the voices of those unknown people.
We tend to focus on famous people, but it is the unknown people who may form the foundation of history.