tHE FARMER'S CORn [a moral story]

Wait! Before you read the story: Ever think that you are in one way connected with your neighbours, even if they're your worst enemies? Do you know that when helping them in any way, you're indirectly rendering yourself help and vice versa? Now you can read the story to know why I said so...


There was once upon a time, a farmer who
grows corn. This farmer was very popular for planting award-winning corn. Each
year he entered his corn in the
state fair where it won a blue
ribbon.
One particular year a T.V reporter
interviewed him and learned
something interesting about
how he grew it. During the course of the interview, the reporter
discovered that the farmer
shared his corn seeds with his
neighbors.

"How can you afford to share
your best seed corn with your
neighbors when they are
always earning you awards in competition. Don't you know that theirs might beat yours in the next competition
?" the
reporter asked.
"Why sir," said the farmer,
"didn't you know? The winds
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."

mESSAGE OF THE STORy
The farmer is very much aware of the
connectedness of life. His corn
cannot improve unless his
neighbor's corn also improves.
So it is with our lives. Those
who choose to live in peace
must help their neighbors to live
in 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.

mORAL OF THE STORy

Always help others around you, if you do, you're helping yourself too.
Remember, what goes around comes around.

This story was submitted by mRS. E. AGBe