What Does History means... !!!

What does history mean to 'YOU' .. Recently i was thinking about the term 'History' ... i asked a few people... some websites..... 

My friend's grandma said about 5 generations before her ... and she was discussing their greatness and plunders. She was predicting that a cycle of 7 generations will have all status and categories of people in a single family. To be more specific, the same family will be honored / respected and treated like kings once in the 7 generations. In another one they will be almost cared to nothing. She was not clear of the number of kids at each level of family tree, but she knew about 3 generations before her and 2 generations after her which ranged for about 300 years or even more. We could even say she was a walking historical reference for the period from around 1700 till now . I believe her hypothesis which is ' there will be a top class generation will then degrade gradually and become insignificant and then grow from there to the most powerfully known and this happens in 7 generations' .. She said before that was history for her .. :) ... 

I was reading a blog about Chinese history ... One of the historian was asked about the English invasions and colonies.. he said it was too early to discuss about the consequences of their invasion... !!! He was backing with some events which were related to events relevant to the first trade route, which was used during 206 BC – 220 BC (Silk route .. i am not sure about the years .. may be built during this 14 yrs). I couldn't even guess what his meaning for the term History meant for him ... :P 

And during Bush administration america was having many treaties with other countries. America - Japan relations were strong now during the Iraq reconstruction, Japanese troops were working side by side with the American troops, who apparently nuked 2 of their most prosperous cities just 65 years back in WW2 ...  :-O 

Sooo... Is 'History' relative... i guess so...