I found myself reading a book yesterday about the history of a valley near where I live called Grizedale . It was once a thriving place in the 1800's , but gradually people left over time and its now virtually uninhabited . This book is a record of stories and the characters who used to live there . One thing which really alarmed me as I read , was how many disasters unexpected and tragic happened back then ( as you may expect due to mining or the building of the Settle to Carlisle railway ) . Life was hard and dangerous .One story told of a freak accident involving a boy falling off a horse and cart and dying . A sad story , but what shook me really was that today where I live such equivalent tragedy's are still happening , and are just as unexpected or unforeseen .
For example in the Grizedale the valley a young girl was trampled by her horse and died in a freak accident just two years ago . Really heart wrenching stuff . I remember it well . Other untimely tragedy's have happened in my valley too , but the details are not important to my point I'm about to make. Im not making a suggestion of anything spooky going on here , just the fact that tragedies continue to occur despite our modern precautions , wisdom and awareness . NOTHING can stop them , nothing ever has ! To see similar circumstances several generations ago has rattled me . Times have not changed . There might be a saviour to rescue you in the next world , who knows ? But in this one I think its quite obvious there is none , really . Harsh ? History says otherwise !
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