Abraham Lincoln spoke for all of us when he said;” Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history” None of us can escape history. It is like running away from ones shadow. History will end only when Man does.

This is true at a relative level so long we are bound by space , time and casuation.

Speaking about concepts let me add that the concept of time is a much-debated subject.
Indian texts – Hindu and Buddhist - say time is an illusion .Yet the illusion persists. (I heard Einstein shared a similar view). Man needs to break up time into fragments because he has to understand, monitor and manage his life and of his fellow beings.
The linier time, as we understand it, exists because we have learnt to impose a relative concept over the absolute. For example, we have accepted a “day” as a working unit of time. We have divided / sub- divided it into hours, minutes, seconds etc. We measure our work and life in terms of these units. A “day” itself is reckoned with reference to sunset and sunrise. We may call this a relative view.
However, we all know sun neither sets nor rises. From the Absolute point of view, there is no day or night. It is a time- less universe (because “time” as we understand it, is measured in terms of the interval between two events.)
We in our daily life impose a relative concept (day) over the Absolute (time- less ness).This we do, because we are living in a relative world and not because we are ignorant of the sun’s status. Otherwise, how else can we live in a relative world?