Melding til menneskeheten
Vil vi ha et godt liv, må vi hjelpe andre til å oppnå det samme. Les om bonden fra USA som delte sitt korn med naboen. Damene.no ønsker alle sine lesere en GLAD PÅSKE!!
Følgende artikkel sirkulerer i øyeblikket på internettet, og skal angivelig være en nyhetsreportasje fra en lokalavis i Nebraska USA.
Selv om man ikke vet hvem som har skrevet artikkelen, eller om opplysningene er sanne, har den et så pass viktig budskap at den kvalifiserer for offentlig publisering.
Det handler om en kornbonde fra Nebraska/USA som nettopp har vunnet den blå sløyfe i en lokal konkurranske for sine gode mais, som han vanligvis gjøre hvert år.
Reporteren fra lokalavisen vil selvsagt vite hva som er hemmeligheten bak den perfekte kornavlingen.
Og bondens svarte at det var fordi han delte sine såkornene med naboene.
Her er orginalartikkelen:
There was a Nebraska 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 in other dimensions. Those who choose to be at peace must help their neighbors to be at 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.
Kilde: Grunder.no
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