The Untold...

Until the lion has a historian, the hunter will always be a hero!

A line from a graffiti wall in the National Museum in Copenhagen. Read it... and was in a state of trance for a while. I don't think I have read many of such emphatic statements. Beautifully put in words. And it was the highlight of my trip. Left me a little messed up though. :-)

To me what it means is - there must be many many untold stories in this world. You never know the complete truth since none told / wrote about many of the things. We only know things that are written in the legend. Someone we consider a hero, might not have actually been one. Someone we consider a good leader, might not have been that good. Someone might have lived on to be a hero but died without being written about. And is dead forever!

Leaves you with just too many questions and unsettles your mind. At least it did that to me. Suddenly I have started doubting all that I have read or studied about history. Moreso, what is written could be false. May be one king wanted himself to be remembered as the most powerful ever... So he made a historian write stories about him... anything could have happened.

No one told the lion's side of the story right? May be the lion is the real hero... Someday, somewhere, somehow... we will discover the truth! The complete truth...

Amen!