What Visiting Italy Taught Me

The beauty of the lands I saw in Italy that have been there for thousands of years and still stand tall and proud just as the Native Americans hold the their sacred lands, preserved as well as they can throughout the last thousands of years. They have influenced my life to preserve the things that remind you of the past, because the past is what made you and you can only move on when you have learned from it.

 “What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. (Anonymous)”

When walking through the streets you feel the history with every step you take it’s like being back in the times when the buildings and castles were still in use and held so sacredly by all. It was one of the most incredible experiences I have ever been able to experience being able to walk where my ancestors walked and where great figures of history have been and seen what they have seen it was incredible. The churches in the Vatican, Rome, and Florence were some of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. The original paintings on the roof of the Sistine Chapel left me speechless. How the churches that were built and still standing took over two hundred and fifty years to be completed and still looked incredible after so many people died building them.

These sacred and preserved lands of Italy gave the value in my life to hold on to things because you never know how beautiful it may become or how nice it will make you feel when you see it again. Preservation helps me and others to be able to learn and grow over the things that happened.