A healthy dose

[RedJessi]

Thanks Callenish - I think this is more inline with my idealist-champion personality though. LOL

There once was a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. 

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 neighbors.

"How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors 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 neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn."

He is very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbor's corn also improves.

So it is with our lives. Those who choose to live in peace must help their neighbors to live in peace. Those who choose to live well must help others to live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others to find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.

The lesson for each of us is this: if we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn. 


[Mission]

But that's also a better parable, IMO.

"If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich." -Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

[Bright]

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving "We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor."

Edited October 29, 2009 by Bright

[Mission]

"Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in." -Jim Rohn

[RedJessi]

Sorry I missed November! It was a busy month - and I spent most of it out of the country. I will get back into the swing of this after PiP!

[Commodore Swab]

As I am leaving for PiP and already lacking sleep this came across my mind from long ago. . .

"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"

[Badger]

Me Mother taught me this, an' it be true;

Sorrow shared is sorrow halved,

but

Joy shared is joy doubled.

Share yer Joys an' Sorrows wi' those who care fer ye, an fer who ye care.