From a tiny seed to a mighty tree
We see
a huge tree and wonder about its mighty size. As time passes, the tree would continue
to grow. But for a moment, if we go back in time, we would realize that once
upon a time the tree that has us amazed was just a seed.
A seed, so puny, that
we would not have taken notice of it. And here it is in front of us, after
having grown for all those years.
After a certain time, this tree will
bear seeds of the future. There might be numerous seeds but not all of them
would grow to become huge.
Some of them will just be carried away by the wind
and get destroyed.
Few may become food for insects. Only a portion would
survive the travails of nature to slowly flourish in a conducive environment
with the required nutrition.
That resulting enormous tree will again through
the same cycle. That is the way nature works.
But it does not mean that greatness is only associated with the
tree being mighty. The true greatness is to realize the humble beginnings of
such an enormous entity and respect the rules of nature.
In a similar vein, a
person of great stature will not take pride in his achievements when he has
grown rich or gained power in the society. A true savant would realize that in pride is his fall and instead gets stuck to his roots.
Let us
never forget that however big a tree might be looking right now, at one point
in its life cycle, it was just a minuscule seed.
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