Fable
The Astrologer
A man who lived a long time ago believed that
he could read the future in the stars. He called himself an Astrologer, and
spent his time at night gazing at the sky.
One
evening he was walking along the open road outside the village. His eyes were
fixed on the stars. He thought he saw there that the end of the world was at
hand, when all at once, down he went into a hole full of mud and water.
There
he stood up to his ears, in the muddy water, and madly clawing at the slippery
sides of the hole in his effort to climb out.
His
cries for help soon brought the villagers running. As they pulled him out of
the mud, one of them said:
"You
pretend to read the future in the stars, and yet you fail to see what is at
your feet! This may teach you to pay more attention to what is right in front
of you, and let the future take care of itself."
"What
use is it," said another, "to read the stars, when you can't see
what's right here on the earth?"
Moral
- Take care of the little things and the big things will
take care of themselves.
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