The Three Saints!
In their town all the creatures inhibiting it lived by the MOTTO and carried the sign where on it was written 'MYOB' MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS, GREAT APATHY EXTISTENCE!
None of its people were brought together were brought together by SORROW NOR HAPPINESS, no TRAGEDY NOR TRIUMPH seemed able to foster a bond between them, every man was for himself, on his own, and an island by himself, it was like Tom Hanks movie CAST AWAY, where I live Somali's got a saying 'A dead man's shoes is more worthy than them! As I watched Tom Hanks burying the dead man and taking his shoes I realized what that saying meant for Somali's!
Everyone in the REPUBLIC OF APATHY HAD MANY DUTIES, ROLES AND RESPONSIBLITIES BUT NO RIGHTS AT ALL, NO ONE GAVE A DAMN IF THEY ALL PERSHIED AS LONG AS IT IS NOT THE SOMEBODIES, THE NOBODIES CAN ALL PERISH AND GO TO HELL, WHO CARES, THE SOMEBODIES IN THE RULING CLASS WILL GET THEIR SHOES AND THE SOMEBODIES IN THE NEWS CHANNELS WILL GET SAD AND HORRYFYING STORIES TO RECYCLE ALL DAY TO MAKE THE GREATEST WEALTH OUT OF EVERYBODIES TRAGEDY!
At the outskirts of the town lived three saints who felt very sorry for the people of THE REPUBLIC OF APATHY, and they cared a lot about their fate, you see; 'It is both a great agony and bless at the same time to care and feel a lot!'
On Friday's the three saints who cared a lot would go to the republic of apathy cemetery, saint one planted roses/trees, saint two would recite prayers and saint three would just sit there and reflect what it is like to be a citizen in the republic of apathy!
One Friday a traveler passed by the cemetery and went inside encountering the three saints, he asked them about what they were doing and they told them their story and of that of those buried in the cemetery, when they were done telling him the story, the four of them sat beside each other and wept together!
He joined them in watering/planting trees/roses, reciting prayers, and when all was done they sat beside each other and reflected upon what it meant to live in a place like the one they lived in!
As he was departing he paused for a moment and came back and asked in a whispering voice 'The grave stone carry different dates, why is that?!
After a moment of silence the three saints said in one voice:
One is for their BIRTH & DEATH DATES,
THE OTHER IS FOR THE PERIOD THEY HAD BEEN ACTUALLY ALIVE!
The saint of reflection said 'The vision I get every Friday from them is that they are in great agony for they died with lots of songs/stories locked inside them that they didn't bring to life, plus they wasted time on people of low quality who exploited them, and that they had not truly lived authentically at all they were obedient slaves they lived fully to the expectation of people who regarded that their shoes will be of more benefit than the sacred soul and life that they had been!'
And with that knowledge the traveler left and made and oath that he will warn all the other souls he comes across not to have a similar fate similar to those BURIED IN THE CEMETRY OF THE REGRETFUL SOULS WHO NEVER LIVED AT ALL, & WERE DECEIVED/EXPOITED BY ALL IN THE REPUBLIC OF APATHY!