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Wednesday 21st September 2016
G'day,
Facebook reminded me that I posted the following 12 months ago today.
I don't think the value or the timeliness of the message has diminished in the last 12 months.
Do you?
Lessons From The Farmyard
This month's events in Syria and Europe only serve to remind us t hat when one country takes it on itself to destabilise another, like the US has in Syria, EVERYONE loses.
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 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.”
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...
-Call it power of collectivity...
-Call it a principle of success...
-Call it a law of life.
The fact is, none of us truly and fully wins, until we all win!!
Hope you have a great week!
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