One Who Read the Future
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. He was always busy worrying about the future and
villagers often came to him, hoping to know what their future hold.
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 near. He was lost in his thoughts about the future. As he was
looking at the stars, he kept walking without looking down. Suddenly, he
felt into a ditch full of mud and water.
He was sinking in the muddy water, and madly trying to claw at the
out and fearing for his life, he started screaming for help. His cries for help
slippery sides of the hole in his effort to climb out. He was unable to crawl
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
the earth?”​