An old Fisherman
Long ago, around 1815s, near Miami , there was a small of island on which there was a small, small town composed of about 100-140 people. It was a very sick and poor town, they did not have a lot of resources, and they did not have any comunication device. Their only comunication system was through fire and bottle messages. The more the time passed, the more the people got sick.
The only way the inhabitants could get food was by killing birds like pigeons or fishing. Fishing was the base of the town's economy. But the fish the fisherman caught each year decreased. Town's people knew it was already over, there was no way they could get to Miami and get health treatments, so they knew that the Island they called Diland (Doom Land) was the place where they were going to die. Time passed and the population slowly decreased.
After 35 years passed on, Diland was almost empty there were about 20-30 habitants. Babys and kids became teenagers and adults, adults were now the oldest inhabitants from Diland. They knew it was over already, sooner or later they will soon be doomed. But among the people there was an old fisherman who grew since he was a baby in Diland. This fisherman did not was comfortable with the idea that he was dying on the island. Specially because he had never seen the world as it is. He did not knew anything outside Diland.
One day when he was about to go fishing very early in the morning. He saw how the sun was rising it was the most beutiful look he had ever seen on his life. Since that moment on he knew he wanted to leave that doomed island and meet the whole world. Instead of going fishing he packed all he had, he fixed his boat and he sailed away from Diland. He did not know were to go so he just let the flow of the water move his boat hoping that worked.
Days passed, and there was no sign of land in miles. The fisherman did not loose faith, besides he wanted to get his dream acomplished. One day the climate was bad, the fisherman inmediately knew a storm was coming, he was afraid, he was not prepared for such thing. He went in a cabin and hoped everything went alright. As he was in the cabin, the storm began. He could hear how huge waves of water started to hit the boat's walls. The old man was afraid he did not know what to do, his faith was gone. He was very sad, he replied over and over again: "What a stupid idea". As he fell down in depression one of the wooden boxes he had on the top part of the cabin fell over his head and knocked him asleep.
The next day, the old man woke up. He saw through the window and he saw the sun shining, he could not believe he made it alive. Other than that he could not believe what hes eyes were seeing. He went out the cabin and he broke in tears as he saw the sun rising in the exact same way it did before he left Diland. Under the shiny sun there was the clearest view of land he had ever seen, and as he continued to watch the sun rise, tears kept felling down his eyes. And slowly he started to die as the only inhabitant from Diland who actually saw land, and how beutiful the world is.
The only way the inhabitants could get food was by killing birds like pigeons or fishing. Fishing was the base of the town's economy. But the fish the fisherman caught each year decreased. Town's people knew it was already over, there was no way they could get to Miami and get health treatments, so they knew that the Island they called Diland (Doom Land) was the place where they were going to die. Time passed and the population slowly decreased.
After 35 years passed on, Diland was almost empty there were about 20-30 habitants. Babys and kids became teenagers and adults, adults were now the oldest inhabitants from Diland. They knew it was over already, sooner or later they will soon be doomed. But among the people there was an old fisherman who grew since he was a baby in Diland. This fisherman did not was comfortable with the idea that he was dying on the island. Specially because he had never seen the world as it is. He did not knew anything outside Diland.
One day when he was about to go fishing very early in the morning. He saw how the sun was rising it was the most beutiful look he had ever seen on his life. Since that moment on he knew he wanted to leave that doomed island and meet the whole world. Instead of going fishing he packed all he had, he fixed his boat and he sailed away from Diland. He did not know were to go so he just let the flow of the water move his boat hoping that worked.
Days passed, and there was no sign of land in miles. The fisherman did not loose faith, besides he wanted to get his dream acomplished. One day the climate was bad, the fisherman inmediately knew a storm was coming, he was afraid, he was not prepared for such thing. He went in a cabin and hoped everything went alright. As he was in the cabin, the storm began. He could hear how huge waves of water started to hit the boat's walls. The old man was afraid he did not know what to do, his faith was gone. He was very sad, he replied over and over again: "What a stupid idea". As he fell down in depression one of the wooden boxes he had on the top part of the cabin fell over his head and knocked him asleep.
The next day, the old man woke up. He saw through the window and he saw the sun shining, he could not believe he made it alive. Other than that he could not believe what hes eyes were seeing. He went out the cabin and he broke in tears as he saw the sun rising in the exact same way it did before he left Diland. Under the shiny sun there was the clearest view of land he had ever seen, and as he continued to watch the sun rise, tears kept felling down his eyes. And slowly he started to die as the only inhabitant from Diland who actually saw land, and how beutiful the world is.
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