"A frog in the well" was a phrase which we often describe someone that was ignorant about worldly happens just like a frog believing that the mouth of the well is the whole sky.
Went to a camp recently and stumbled across a modification of the phrase by ven. manko directing to the younger generations. I thought it is a phenomena irregardless of age group. "A frog in the glass" was the modified phrase.
Getting informations in the current context is easy. We have the news, newspapers, or even through the mouth of anyone. In fact I feel we have been overloaded with information. A frog in the glass means the frog is capable to know what happens in the surrounding by looking through the clear glass walls but he did nothing.
Just like the poor frog, we are all aware of the world affairs, disasters, poverty, and sufferings all around the world in just a flip through the papers every morning. But what happens after that? Do we just skip to the leisure sections or just lament how poor thing they are and thats all.
Not expecting to head a humanitarian aid movement but maybe we could just exercise some of our creative mind to reach out :) If creativity is missing somehow through the years, maybe tagging along the people that are doing it will be nice as well.
http://www.tzuchi.org.sg/
May all beings be well and happy :)
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