Wisdom from a Farmer
There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn.
Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper
reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew
it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his
neighbours. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours
when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter
asked.
“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The
wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field.
If my neighbours grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade
the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours
grow good corn.”
So is with our lives... Those who want to live
meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a
life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must
help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the
welfare of all...
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