Everyone has a past that may or may not define them. Some people change drastically after their teenage and become a completely different person. Some learn from the horrors of their past and decide to be a better version of themselves by going in a completely different direction than the negativity that was surrounding them in the old days. Just like people, places have a history too. In fact, the past of countries influences it more than the past of people influences them. Compared to places, we have a short life and it is easier to observe a country going through a growing process than to see how a person’s life would turn out to be.
Many countries have a dark past full of blood, poverty, and chaos. Some of them are still living in misery. Their circumstances, corruption of their leaders, and indifference of their bureaucracy has led to the destruction of those countries. But there are some that moved on from a dark past with such grace that no one would be able to tell the nightmares they went through. Take Japan, for instance. The country America dropped nuclear bombs on. The progress Japan has made since its dark days is remarkable and inspiring. No one can see a shadow of that past in the Japan of today because it has progressed by leaving behind those terrible incidents.