Thrust into Freedom
INSPIRATIONAL, 8 Jun 2015
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service
Prof. Dietrich Fischer
A husband and wife in the city of Medellin, Colombia, had a cow on a small plot of grass land in front of their house, and they barely subsisted by feeding some of her milk to their children and selling the rest. Then the city council decided to ban farm animals within city limits, and the family was forced to sell the cow.
The parents were devastated and worried how they could feed their children. They had to look for jobs, and both mother and father found well-paying jobs, and they were much better off than before, able to send their children to school.
Sometimes we cling to what is familiar, and don’t realize that we enjoy more freedom than we believe. Some people act like a drunken man who stood outside the city park, shaking the fence and calling, “Let me out, please let me out!”
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Dietrich Fischer, born in 1941 in Münsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations.
Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer’s Stories to Inspire You – TRANSCEND University Press-TUP.
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