The Words of the Ureta Family
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The Words of the Ureta Family |
When some children were playing at the playground, there came an old man with a big pot.
It was full of seeds. All kinds of seeds. Some were long, some short, some just looked so unusual.
A child asked him what are those seeds for, the man grinned and said, "Oh these are the special seeds that you can see your future in it, when it grows."
All the children became curious about it. So one by one they took a seed with them.
As there were many kinds of seeds, so as the kids. There were a kid very easy to get angry, another very worried, and so on.
Some kids forgot totally about the seeds so some seeds lost on the way before they make it to their place to live.
But some do reached to their pot. The angry kid was the first one who planted the seed. He anxiously waited for the plant to grow. The worried kid planted it too. He prepared everything from the best soil to the plant food. But he was still worried if the seed gonna ever grow.
The angry kid got angry when he saw no signs of the plant showed up from the pot. He whispered to the plant, "If you don't come out I'll dump you into trash!" The plant actually heard this so it decided to show up!
The worried kid looked at the pot as many times as he can to check if it's coming out. Every time he saw no signs of the plant, it made him worry. So he whispered "Is this plant OK? If it doesn't show up soon, I should take it to the plant shop to check if everything is OK." The plant actually heard this and it hated to moving around so it decided to show up as well.
The angry kid's plant had dark and thorny leaves and trunk. It made him more angry when he saw how ugly it looked!
The worried kid's plant had light color and skinny leaves and trunk. It made him more worried when he saw it.
As it grew, the angry kid's one became uglier and uglier, the worried kid's one weaker and weaker.
At some point both couldn't put up with what they saw. They went to the park to look for the old man.
There was the old man sitting and dozing on the bench. The angry and the worried kid both went straight to the man.
"Excuse me sir. But the plant you gave us wasn't good at all. Can you change it to the other ones?" Said the angry kid, the worried kid nodded.
The old man opened one eye and said, "Oh, that. No, I can't change them. But YOU CAN CHANGE IT BY CHANGING YOUR ATTITUDE!" and the man closed his eye again.
"What???" both kids looked at each other and wondered.
When they saw the bench again, it was empty!
So they had no choice but went home with their plants.
The angry kid was ready to dump the plant to the trash can. But something deep inside him stopped that from happening. "Change my ATTITUDE then it will change?" He looked at the plant again and somehow felt pity on it. So he decided to try again.
The worried kid saw the plant almost dying. He didn't know what to do with it, but he also remembered what the man said. "Change your ATTITUDE and it will change!" He looked at the weaken plant and felt pity on it so he decided to try again.
From then on, whenever the angry kid got upset, he came to the plant and looked at it and somehow it made him feel better. As he felt better and calmer the thorn of the plant disappeared.
When worried kid couldn't sleep at night because he was worried about something, he looked at the plant. Then somehow he felt better so he could go to sleep. Day by day the color of the plant become greener and stronger!
One nice autumn day, two young men with suits were sitting next to each other on the bench at the park.
They both had healthy beautiful plant on their hands and the seeds on the other hands. They looked as healthy and handsome as their plants.
They called the children playing at the park to pass on the seeds.
They wished each child to grow their best plants in the pot.
The end