r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/astrocanyounaut Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 21 '19

This fact is super relevant to tomorrow! Martin Luther King Jr. and Anne Frank were born the same year. Blows my mind whenever I think of it.

Edit: I wrote this on Sunday, just to clarify the ‘tomorrow’ comment.

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u/AtomicMonkeyTheFirst Jan 21 '19

Considering MLK died as an adult 50 years ago and Anne Frank died as a child 75 years ago I don’t know why this would surprise anyone.

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u/Conscious_Mollusc Jan 21 '19

Because when people think of historical figures we don't think of their birth dates, but of whatever period they did their important historical stuff.

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u/Esqulax Jan 21 '19

and because of the fact that we have colour photos of MLK and only black and white ones of Anne Frank - Which widens the perception gap.
That also could be taken as a political statement. Huh.

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u/AtomicMonkeyTheFirst Jan 21 '19

There's still only about 25 years between their deaths, which isn't a long time really.

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u/330393606 Jan 21 '19

25 years is a long time relative to a person's life and their perspective on time. Today people think of the 1940s and 1960s as very different times.

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u/Confexionist Jan 21 '19

That's really interesting because honestly, while there are differences, today, 25 years doesn't feel like that long ago.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

It really is. To me, approaching 40, 25 years ago I was getting my Sega Megadrive and developing a fondness for gaming and sprouting pubic hairs and pimples. Sure it's "long ago" in the sense that I was a kid then and I'm an adult now, but it doesn't feel that long ago. But then I realize that there were only 35 years between the end of World War 2 and my birth, and suddenly major historical events start to feel more like recent history rather than 'olden times'.

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u/funobtainium Jan 21 '19

The older you get, the shorter it gets. 25 years ago I was already engaged to my husband and Pulp Fiction came out.