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 it 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.
--Author unknown
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