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A farmer had a big reputation of growing 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. There was something unique the farmer was doing in growing the corns. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighboring farmers.
“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 shocked 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 too grow good corn.”
The farmer seemed to be very much aware of the connectedness of life. His corn cannot improve unless his neighbour’s corn also improves.
So it is with our lives. Those who choose to succeed must help others to succeed. Those who want to live meaningfully must help enrich the lives of others. 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.
If we are to grow good corn, we must help our neighbors grow good corn. Call it mutualism. Call it the principle of success. Call it the law of life. Call it Life lessons. The fact is, none of us truly win until we all win. y
Now that you discovered one of the most important life lessons is “Sharing is caring”, please do your part by sharing this story and help spread this message. The world indeed will be a better place if everybody believes in sharing.
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