The “eye of providence” you see on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States has a long history as a symbol reaching back to ancient Egypt.

For our nation’s founding fathers, the symbol represented the watchful presence of God over the affairs of a new nation in revolution, a reminder to act in good faith or risk the ultimate judgment that befalls unjust rulers.

It’s one thing to leave judgment of our life choices to abstractions or those who write history. It’s another to have every word you write archived for generations to come.

Last week, the Library of Congress announced it has acquired your tweets going back to March 2006 and will archive every word for future generations to read.

Have you ever sent out a “tweet” on the popular Twitter social media service? Congratulations: Your 140 characters or less will now be housed in the Library of Congress.

That’s right. Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress. That’s a LOT of tweets, by the way: Twitter processes more than 50 million tweets every day, with the total numbering in the billions.

How will history judge you through 140 character tweets? Did you elevate the good, or focus attention on the bad? Did you defend the status quo, or advocate positive change? Were you an agent of cynicism or a voice of conscience?

Now, more than any time in history, you control your narrative, and you are the one in the driver’s seat. Where will history say you took us?