Old Book, a Fifty Word Story
Do you ever visit @jayna? Each week she gathers some of the best 50-word stories from steemit for her 50-Word Challenge.
Here's my contribution:
Old Book
An old hard-cover book sat on a dusty library shelf high above the heads of the young readers. Below him, their eager hands scooped up fresh paperbacks, glossy magazines, and flashy novellas.
The old book looked down and yelled:
“I am wise! You can learn from me!”
Nobody listened.
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It is very touching friend. Congratulations
Amigo! Your story was great too!
And ignore the irony of posting about old books on a new electronic medium?
It's a given at this day and age, a "normal" if you will, to even find this irony so ironic that it stops being ironic and just is. Alas, such is life.
Ah, that is so bittersweet, @vdux. But I believe the younguns will come around when they grow a little older and wiser!
Once the convert it into an ebook!
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I deleted the picture.
The tale of those not ready to be enlightened by such knowledge. How many times have we passed by that book?
Pretty soon those books will be SEO'd off of google!
Great story. So many valuable books suffering the same kind of rejection/indifference.
People, too...
Absolutely
Wow there is so much depth in this!! Really got me thinking about what we value, and what we don't.
and so the dusty old tomes, atop the shelf, last, preserving their precious knowledge for those who seek it, whereas the magazines, the novellas, ripped, thumbed, torn, fall by the wayside, replaced by the next issue.
Thank you, @calluna!
I like this on its literal level and it works on a symbolic level also think. The books can be interchanged with people. So often the elderly with all their life experience are shunned and not listened to in our society. These days especially some of the youngsters seem to think they know it all? My favorite people are often the very young and the very old. I think we can learn a great deal from both..
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