High up somewhere in the mountains was a deaf village, deaf not because its inhabitants were really deaf but because they were deaf to the rest of the world. The people in that village lived as a single family. The young respected the older, the husbands valued their wives. There were no words of hatred, insult, sadness, revenge, envy in their speech because there was nothing in their lives to be called those words. The inhabitants of that village were born with a smile and from the first to the last day of their lives, that wide smile never left their lips. Husbands were masculine and women feminine. The children helped the adults in the household and the old and the young lived in harmony with nature. In the evening they would gather around the fire and send their smiles to the stars. Everyone would choose their star in the sky and talk to it. From the stars they learned the laws of the universe and other worlds. It's been with them ever since they knew about themselves. One day a man appeared in the village and said I was a teacher. All the people rejoiced at the newcomers. And not long after, she entrusted her children to him with the hope that their children would learn more important laws than those they had learned from Nature and the Universe until then. The teacher began his teaching. As time went on, everyone began to notice how the children began to change slowly, as if they had been replaced by some other children. They became irritable at first, and after that malice appeared among them, they quarreled with each other more and more often and took things from each other. They learned to make fun of, false and cunning smiles. It was as if the previous smiles, to which everyone in the village was accustomed, had been erased from their faces. People didn't know if it was good, because the word "bad" didn't even exist with them. They trusted the teacher and sincerely believed that it was new knowledge and skills that the teacher brought them from another part of the world. It's been a few years. The children have grown up, and life in that remote village has changed. People took over the land, fenced it off and called it their property. They became distrustful and cautious towards each other. They forgot the language of nature. Each of them lost their star in the sky. In addition, televisions, computers, mobile phones and auto-garages appeared in their homes. People lost their wide smiles, but because of that they got cynical giggles. And the teacher has not yet learned to laugh.
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