Story: The Astronomer
An absent minded astronomer was interested in nothing, but simply staring and staring at the stars. Every night he would go out, and he would look and study them in the sky. One evening he was walking along as usual, his head in the air and his eyes fixed on the stars. He didn‘t notice that there was a deep well in front of him. As he made his way along, he suddenly tripped and fell into the well.
“ Help“
he shouted,
“ Help me someone!“
He sat at the bottom of the well, soaked to the skin and calling for help. A passerby heard his shouts and peered down into the hole.
“Please help me!“
begged the astronomer.
“ I was so busy studying the stars that I didn‘t notice the well.“
“That‘s your fault“
the passerby told him.
“ You really should have looked where you were going!“
It‘s no use fixing our minds on higher things, like the stars and the sky, if we ignore what is going on around us.
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It’s a man looking over his family during the British Raj in India. There were many cases of cannibalism and he feared someone would try to kill and eat his children or wife. I acknowledge this is a difficult picture to look at— but I included it for a reason. Many people in the US/West aren’t even aware of the terrible famines that swept through India and which are comparable to the holocaust in deaths (an estimated ~30 million people have died in famines in India). This was taken from the Great Famine of 1876–1878, which was far worse than the infamous Bengal Famine. It was caused by a crop failure/drought and was exacerbated by the crown’s export of wheat abroad. In total, 5.6 - 9 million people died (it’s hard to get exact figures). And within huge statistics like these, are forgotten stories. These are individuals and families, who slowly faced the despair of knowing they had no food and would have no food in the near future. They faced the horror of knowing there was
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