The old taxi-driver who was a fisherman in his youth

I was talking to an old taxi-dirver - he told me, for the first 20 years

of his life he was a fisherman and used to live in a village, and

used to get all his food from the sea and from his vegetable 

patch - and he was very happy. He put his net in the sea

and in 3 hours caught enough fish to sell and eat for 1 week!

He said he had no needs, no wants, no worries. A lot of 

people in Asia were living this way for thousands of years.

Until the modern times caught up with him, and the way

of life was lost for ever for him. His old village is gone and 

he has regretted it ever since. He misses the simple life.

Is this what is known as modern progress, the way 

that is taught to us as something every country should 

be doing? Can we question it? Yes, we can.

 

One day, we hope that that simple life will be back for all

of us. The modern cities and technological advances that

the world is so proud of today, do not give human

beings that peace and happiness our  ancestors had for

thousands of years, for we have come far from mother nature.

We have come far from the land, from the seas. We no longer

have the feeling that mother nature, in her endless bounty,

will feed us and look after us. Today we are at loggerheads

with nature and all it's powers - we treat nature as the enemy.

Our cities are a testament to that, because we have cut

ourselves out from the natural way of life.

Like the story about the famous violin player playing in a 

subway and no one paying attention to him, today, 

we miss out all of God's Creations - we dont have the time

to stop and stare. How many of us have looked at the starry sky

recently? We used to do this as children.

There was an English poem like this we learnt in school. 

If anyone remembers it, let us know.

Regards,

Porus.