"There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he
won the award for the best grown corn.
One year a newspaper reporter
interviewed him and learned something
interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the
farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “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 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 grow good corn.”
So is with our lives... Those who want
to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for
the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches.
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