The Truth Behind Atlantis

There's this thing called college. I'm not sure if you've heard about it yet. For those of you that haven't, I'll explain it to you. College: noun. Step 1: Leave everything you have known for the last 18 years. Step 2: Pay someone a lot of money to learn things from expensive textbooks. And on the side, pay more money to sleep and eat. (Whoever invented this thing was an economic mastermind.) Step 3a: Take advantage of the expensive education you just payed for and do homework. 3b: Follow the calls of happy people outside and have fun. 4: Say you will go to sleep early. 5: Not go to sleep early. 6: Wake up to go to your 8 a.m. dance class. 7: Repeat.

So that is college. 

But sometimes, you learn cool little bits of knowledge that make life interesting. (This is my inspiration of the day. By the way.)

In my History of Creativity class, I was reading about the Minoans. Their culture suddenly died off around 1600 B.C. and scholars debate what caused this fall out. One of the theories is Thera, a large volcano in close proximity to the island where the Minoans lived, exploded. This is what the textbook was explaining when it went off on a small tangent and explained another conspiracy theory. 

"Some scholars have equated this event with the legendary destruction of the island of Atlantis as reported by Plato. . . These scholars believe that if the distance from the Greek mainland is corrected, along with the size of the island and the time, the disappearance of Atlantis would correspond closely with the eruption of Thera."

I don't know what the chances of this actually being true, but it's interesting to think about. Myths often start with some grain of truth in them. What if Atlantis was real? It's probably hiding under the ocean and now all of the people have evolved into a hybrid of mermaids!!!

(Based off of a true story...)

I appreciate the fact that the world has mysteries that aren't uncovered. It makes the living way more interesting because you will never know what you will learn or hear about. Or what new discovery will change the world. Or what invention will revolutionize human life. 

I guess that's why you go to college.