Today I learned the story 'A Grain As Big As A Hen's Egg' by Leo Tolstoy from my school. It was about the glorious past we human had and the degradation of the present life…
(Do you want to read the story?
here is the link:
http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2898/ )
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Teacher said the past was very
beautiful, everyone were healthier and lived longer than that of the present…
I was doubtful about it.
I came back to home and asked my grandmother ‘was the olden days better
than the present?’
She said ‘yes of course my kid; in my childhood everywhere
we could see paddy fields… everyone had at least a small farm so that we didn't even need to go anywhere for vegetables… and most of the family owned minimum
one cow…’
I asked the same
question to my grandfather,
he said ‘I’m sad about your generation… you all are
being sucked by the internet, television and worthless computer games… my
childhood was laudable… every day we dived into books…Now; reading has become a history! No one reads a book!...do you even know the smell of a new book I
wonder… you have the e-version nowadays… there was a time of handwritten
letters could any e-mails or message replace them? I don’t think…’
What a disaster… I didn't want to live like this… let me look through the window… who knows if I
the blue sky would be there tomorrow… I lost myself in my nightmare about the
future…
‘Why you look sad;
did the teacher scold you?’ it was my elder brother and sister.
All that I had was
the story of glorious past and the disastrous present.
My brother said,
‘Do you want to see
the past? Come with me… let’s go a few years back ’
Ah! I forgot to
tell you; we owned a time traveler… by which you can travel to any time to any place…
I don’t know the technical details…
We spend several
hours in the past events… you won’t even be able to imagine how weird it was…
Some of them are
listed below.
It was the time
when printing technology was invented I saw a group of blubbery old men around
a tea shop who were saying that the printing technology has destroyed the
singularity of handwritten books… and because of the same it’ll be available
everywhere, in the nearest future… no one will know the value of exertion to get
a book… books become so cheap…
Going a little bit
back again – the age of pamphlets- there were also a group of aged people who
were criticizing that era. When numerous pamphlets were produced there were
several groups of youngsters in most of the junction discussing the
information they got from the pamphlets; and the criticism was that these
pamphlets make the generation lazy; spending a lots of time just on talking and
doing nothing worthy…
Interestingly it
was the era of Sir Isaac Newton!
Then the last was
the bronze age there I met an old man who was traveling from place to place. He
too was sad about the next generation; he was saying that ‘human are not meant
to live permanently in a certain area. He has been created to travel all around
the world… my past was glorious…these children have lost all the joy of life!’
Wow! everyone had their own stories about the glorious past… and it was merely
relative
When I came back
home; the exact space and time I left.
My sister was there waiting for me
with some data…I've given some of them below…
Amazing!
Grandma may be right there were
paddy fields and cows everywhere but what about the
productivity?!
Thanks to internet… :)
About Life expectancy;
It was 41 in 1960’s. Within
ten years it has become 48 in 2010 it is almost 67...
I suppose if there wasn't this internet facility I wouldn't have come across these data so soon
This really is an interesting one!
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