There was a farmer who grew superior quality and
award-winning CORN. Each year he entered his CORN in the best Farmer fair where
it won honour and prizes. And when a newspaper reporter interviewed him, he learnt
something interesting about how the farmer grew his award-winning CORN. The
reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours.
Curiously, the reporter asked, "How can you afford to
share your best seed corn with your neighbours, when they are entering in the
corn competition with you, each year?" The farmer smile and asked, "Why
sir, didn't you know that the wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and
swirls it from field to field? If my neighbours grow inferior, sub-standard and
poor quality corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn.
And if I must continue to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours to also grow
good corn."
So it is with our lives. Those who want to live meaningfully
must enrich the lives of others; for the value of a life is measured by the value
of other 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 the power of collectivity. Call it a principle of success. Call it a
law of life. The fact remains, none of us truly wins, until we all win.
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