History is static and unchanging (ignoring, for the moment, things like biases of the recorders and deliberate misinformation). You can take your time to learn all about it at your own pace, and it won’t change on you. (And if you notice, when some new revelation blows what historians thought they knew all to hell, they tend to lose their shit. 😛 Their comfortable certainty fell apart.)
In any case, living people are FAR more dynamic. You will probably never learn all there is to know about most of the people you know, because they change over time too. So do you, and your own perspective. They are the greater challenge, especially for the more introverted personality types like Monica.
metathinking…
aww, was hopin for a pooped hampster wheezin in his wheel on the last panel…
History is static and unchanging (ignoring, for the moment, things like biases of the recorders and deliberate misinformation). You can take your time to learn all about it at your own pace, and it won’t change on you. (And if you notice, when some new revelation blows what historians thought they knew all to hell, they tend to lose their shit. 😛 Their comfortable certainty fell apart.)
In any case, living people are FAR more dynamic. You will probably never learn all there is to know about most of the people you know, because they change over time too. So do you, and your own perspective. They are the greater challenge, especially for the more introverted personality types like Monica.