WORTH READING 31 July 2006

The Red Rose and the Cactus

One beautiful spring day a red rose blossomed in a forest. Many kinds of
trees and plants grew there. As the rose looked around, a pine tree
nearby said, What a beautiful flower. I wish I was that lovely. Another
tree said, Dear pine, do not be sad, we can not have everything.

The rose turned its head and remarked, It seems that I am the most
beautiful plant in this forest. A sunflower raised its yellow head and
asked, Why do you say that In this forest there are many beautiful
plants. You are just one of them. The red rose replied, I see everyone
looking at me and admiring me. Then the rose looked at a cactus and
said, Look at that ugly plant full of thorns! The pine tree said, Red
rose, what kind of talk is this Who can say what beauty is You have
thorns too.

The proud red rose looked angrily at the pine and said, I thought you
had good taste! You do not know what beauty is at all. You can not
compare my thorns to that of the cactus.

What a proud flower, thought the trees. The rose tried to move its roots
away from the cactus, but it could not move. As the days passed, the red
rose would look at the cactus and say insulting things, like This plant
is useless How sorry I am to be his neighbor.

The cactus never got upset and he even tried to advise the rose, saying,
We weren't created without a purpose. Spring passed, and the weather
became very warm. Life became difficult in the forest, as the plants and
animals needed water and no rain fell. The red rose began to wilt. One
day the rose saw sparrows stick their beaks into the cactus and then fly
away, refreshed. This was puzzling, and the red rose asked the pine tree
what the birds were doing. The pine tree explained that the birds got
water from the cactus. Does it not hurt when they make holes asked the
rose.

Yes, but the cactus does not like to see any birds suffer, replied the
pine. The rose opened its eyes in wonder and said, The cactus has water
Yes you can also drink from it. The sparrow can bring water to you if
you ask the cactus for help.

The red rose felt too ashamed of its past words and behavior to ask for
water from the cactus, but then it finally did ask the cactus for help.
The cactus kindly agreed and the birds filled their beaks with water and
watered the rose's roots. Thus the rose learned a lesson and never
judged anyone by their appearance again. Also we too should learn a
lesson that we should never be too proud of what we do, and never carry
high egos especially in work place, what one has knowledge the other
would not be familiar on tat but we should always be willing to learn
rather than carry our egos.

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