The history of a world was vast with its past, present, and future created by the very actions of man itself. From the primitive era, to the industrial age and advanced twenty-first century to the gradual reveal of cutting-edge technology.
Using less than ten percent of their brains, man had constantly changed their world, created countless firsts and weaved the fully unexplored region that was the past which later generations would look back on and learn from, marvel at or emulate to create even greater stories.
The past pushing on the future as the actions of more and more people would create the past, present, and future the world would forever come to know.
Wars, technology development, scientific advancements, laws, and theories..... People would always remember the people who pioneered the way that brought forth the things they could see with their very eyes.
Many would always wonder, assume, speculate on the question “What would the world be like today if this didn't happen”.
If Hitler never started the war, If electricity was never discovered, if Leonardo da Vinci never created the Mona Lisa and worst of all ...... If the Internet was never created.
From bigger things that was reminiscent to the whole world to smaller things that only dealt with our own singular affairs.
What would have happened if I had studied harder in school, gone to a better college, gotten a higher paying job, confessed to my school crush, pursued my dream of being a soccer superstar and the likes.
Regrets, sorrows, happy events, coincidences, what ifs.....
These were the big things people would think of. A representation of a period of time which major events of importance took place that led to a big impact on their personal world or the world itself today.
Our past, our present, our future. The vast majority of us could vividly list out several main occurrences we experienced during our lives that lead us to the point where we found ourselves today.
Like a paraplegic who became that way due to a horrifying accident, or a sports enthusiast now on a wheelchair due to a terrible injury during a game or simply an instance of Doctor Strange.
A narcissistic bastard who had his hands destroyed in a terrible accident because he wasn't paying attention to the road while driving. Iron Man, who received a major life reform after one trip to Afghanistan, Captain America who turned from a dwarf weakling into a super chad with one bottle of chemicals, Superman ......
A series of main events leading up to those defining moments in our lives.
It all formed the Timeline. The events that took place in the past which constituted our current present.
Just like it was on Earth and different realities in fiction, it was the same on the Natural realm of the Avatar Verse.
The Disappearance of the Avatar, The Air Nomads Genocide, The Fire Nation's hundred-year war ...... No matter which nation, people would always remember the greater things. The big events.
Yet little did they realize that behind those memorable happenings were series of seemingly smaller occurrences, coincidences, right or wrong decisions, mistakes, promises, accidents even, that would ultimately lead to the reality they've experienced.
After all, Sozin didn't just wake up one morning and decide to destroy the Air Nomads simply because he felt like it.
Those small happenings, from something as insignificant as a bender at the North Pole taking a deep breath at 6am in the morning to Aang deciding to run away from the Southern Air temple.
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