h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The only question now is how not to fall into a well - a well being a thing that does not change, does not morph, does not adapt or react or grow. The water there is trapped, unable to move, unable to breath. Nothing reaches it, except for the occasional bucket, which only exists to steal from it what little it has. Anything going into or out of the well does so through the bucket. The water in the well was once part of the vast, almost endless reaches of water across the globe - all water is connected in this way. But once the well is dug and that stone wall built around it, it is cut off, away from its family, away from its friends, away from its life. All it can do is sit and wait until the all-merciful bucket finally dries it up and annihilates it.
So then, the question: How do you not fall into a well? If I knew the answer to that, I wouldn't have written this entry. Still, there is some small hope in the fact that other people usually notice when someone falls down a well. If the person falling would only hear them...