The Richest Heritage of Humankind

Literature was pursued by the greatest individuals who ever lived, and they left us works of unsurpassable wisdom; human emotions have always been the same, and this can't attest to the fact that they will not change anytime soon, but the freer we are, the further we go up in our balloon. The richest heritage of Humankind is found in the written word, which is heard often and not really understood; where would we be today without the plays and sonnets of Shakespeare that were quite sad, or Dante's famous canto, not excluding superb works by modern writers?... During the dark ages, monks translated books from Greek and Latin into common languages; as the barbarians destroyed everything found in their path, civilization did not end. Tragedies of famous people attracted the lucrative minds of poets who had heard of them, thus embellishing them with their vivid imagination and present actual facts...I follow in their poetic footsteps, writing down stories that have recently happened, or occurred before I was born; and with ideas as interesting as theirs, I continue in that tradition without envying their unaging expressions and distinguished style, but by aggrandizing them. Literature has finally found its merited place in History, unlikely a hundred years ago, more people are voraciously reading, and keeping the writers busy by admiring their sensational works, making comments of encouragement to boost up their optimism; and to theaters they go and spent an entire night to listen to drama and satire...to scoff, laugh, or cry when emotions intensify by the sconces of the electric lights; and cheering, they applaud the richest heritage of Humankind on stage, and are captivated by its scenario. Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci