Thu 18 Sep 2008
I was fooling around and i stumbled upon this site.It’s no big deal but the story really hit me.Here it goes:
Lovely Town
Once upon a time there was a small town by the sea. It was
very beautiful, with clean blue sea, sand as soft as silk and
wonderful forests along the coast. They called it Lovely. People
lived in it peacefully and happily. They fished, took vacationers
into their homes, and offered them walks in the forest nearby
or boat trips in the sea. They offered them food made from
local plants and animals.
One day the residents of Lovely got together and decided to change their town by turning
it into a big and attractive tourist centre, which they imagined would give them a chance
to make more money and have better lives. They cut down the forest and started building
new hotels in its place. They also built wide roads along the beach, which destroyed the
sand dunes and the plants growing on them. Many tourists drove their cars to Lovely,
making the town a noisy place. Every day lorries brought food and goods from
distant places to meet the demands of the tourists, and rubbish began piling up.
Lovely was growing all the time. Almost nothing seemed to have remained from
the small town — it had changed beyond recognition. People stopped thinking of
Lovely as a nice place for a holiday, and many stopped coming. The people who lived
in Lovely started to miss the town as it used to be.
One evening a stranger appeared in the central square, where most of the local people
gathered in the evening. He stayed there for a long time, listening to the people talk,
and in the end he told them the following story:
Once upon a time there was a special hen. Every single day it laid a golden egg, shining
like a little sun in a corner of the coop. The owner of the hen checked the weight of the
eggs daily. He kept complaining they were not bigger and said: “Maybe I should just kill
that hen. There must be a treasure in its body. If I take it out, then I will be the richest
man in the world.”
After hesitating for some time he finally made up his mind: he killed the bird
and can you imagine his shock to find out that the inside of the hen was just like any other!
He started pulling his hair in despair and crying bitterly, but everything was in vain.
The miser had lost both the eggs and the hen.
The stranger looked at the saddened townspeople and said,
“Those who rush to riches will often end with nothing.”
This story reminds me of Starlight Crystal by Christopher Pike:
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It is two hundred years in the future and 18 year old Paige Christian has been given a chance to join the crew of the Traveler, a special spaceship designed to circle the solar system at near light speed. One day aboard the Traveler is equal to ten years on Earth. It is a time capsule as well as a spaceship whose purpose is to study the changes on earth throughout two centuries, and then return home. Something awful happens to the ship and the Earth and the years pass, billions of them, and still Paige Christian lives, and remembers all those she left behind. Until the day she finally does come home to a world and a future no human being could have imagined! Christopher Pike is a mastery storyteller with a long list of outstanding teen novels to his credit. The Starlight Crystal continues to demonstrate his skills at conjuring up an exciting tale that will engage young readers ages 14 and up.
Things are not getting better around the world in fact it’s getting from worse to worst. Too many natural catastrophes..too many deaths..And it’s just the beginning.I’ve heard so much about sustainable development but i think its just something we’re making up we’re just pretending;alright some might argue that they really do care but in the end it’s the majority that counts and that majority doesn’t even know how critical the actual moment is.Yes there are sensitization campaigns, talks, adverts etc etc But do we care?Oh yes people are going to be on earth so many years from now unless we are hit by something from outer space and end up like the dinosaurs;evolution will go on as is already the case with the brains getting bigger;everything that is being done today is in the name of development and yes we all want easy things but we do not have any control over nature as people tend to think.We are heading towards a dead Earth.