I'll admit it. I'm a history buff. I love to read about history. I also love to write. That got me thinking, so here I am posing the question to you the reader.

There are those who read history and there are those who make history. Which are you?< p>

"What does that have to do with writing?" you ask. Well, let me tell you something about history. If you consider all of the boring, dry history class lectures you've been given in school and if you consider the hundreds of hours you spent memorizing names and dates and places until your head spun and your eyes drooped, you know what it is like to be tortured with a poor teaching of history. But, if you stop to think for a minute: was life really that boring in the past? The answer is no! For those of you who answered "yes", let me ask you this: is your life boring today? If someone were to study your life at some point in the future, would their eyes glaze over? It doesn't have to be that way.

Which brings me to the point of this article. The past--not unlike what you and I are experiencing today in our own lives--was full of opportunities and choices. People back then could choose to go through their lives reading about what other people have done then sit back and let life pass them by, dying in relative anonymity. Or they could have been filled with Pioneer Spirit and gone out and made history happen for themselves. Those pioneers didn't just sit around moping that their lives sucked or that what their efforts were not being rewarded. No! They made sure history remembered their names.

When you log onto Xomba each morning, you have one of two choices. You can choose to be like those poor souls who let life pass them by and post a stale rehash of what other people have already posted in an unoriginal attempt to make a buck or two. OR, you can fill your creative soul with Pioneer Spirit and write passionate articles on new and exciting things, making history come alive for your reader.

History only remembers the names of those who stood apart from the crowd. Let us make Xomba a place where readers can come and be entertained and informed and look forward to being here. Let us strive to be different, be ourselves and focus on original content instead of becoming carbon copy quitters in life. I choose to have history remember me kindly--do you?

There are those who read history and those who make history. Which are you?