Who would like to meet in history?

Someone way of really wanted to meet in history would be Winston Churchill. He sort of been a figure all throughout my life in movies and in trivia and general conversations. I think he really feels the archetypal idea of a statesman who stayed true to his values. It’s interesting reading histories about him but also other history‘s that include him. He participated in the last cavalry charge of the British Empire but he also was still involved in politics during the nuclear age and when the Beatles were starting to come to fame. So he truly lived this long life. It’s interesting to think about him sort of existing simultaneously with Bertrand Russell. Indeed both of them came from aristocratic families in England.

But I think there’s something about the ethos of Winston Churchill staying true to himself despite everything.

He also came and experienced many failures in his life but he kept on going and he thought to himself and he sort of embodied this idea of a philosopher statesman. Perhaps similar to Marcus Arelious and I think that is one of the things that I’ve recently come to really respect about him. I recently read Marcus Arelious and I also read a book by Ryan Holiday. It seems to me that Ryan Holiday thinks that Winston Churchill truly embody the spirit of Marcus Aurelius. I think I agree with that. I think that Winston Churchill truly was someone who stayed to his beliefs, he provided charity when charity was due, and he maintained himself as sort of a truest example of someone who would be The philosopher king so to speak. Granted he was not a king but he was more or less a statement of his times.

It’s interesting to think that the current queen of England was advised by Winston Churchill who knew her fairly well. He was one of the symbols of hope the guided the United Kingdom through world war two and the terrible times that they suffered through.

But at the same time he was also an academic he was someone who had read many books and he was someone who read and constantly read. He read to expand his mind. He read to learn different things. He learned to increase knowledge of his craft.

This idea of reading is something that I really enjoy in Winston Churchill. He’s someone that truly lived up to the spirit of his times.

So returning back to the original question who is someone that you would want to meet in history? I think that it would be Winston Churchill. Maybe this is a cliché answer. But I think that this is an answer that is true and meaningful. I think he truly meant a lot to me. He is also sort of a mentor. I don’t know what we would talk about if we met. But I’m sure I would ask him about his life. I guess it’s interesting to wonder if I would’ve met him in a specific period of his life and he wouldn’t know what would happen subsequently in his life.

Such theories are almost science-fiction ideas about how to deal with the contours of reality and what would happen if certain things occurred in history. But he truly was a unique individual.

© Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV