I have only few yards of land around
my residence. There are some good shrubs that bear sweet fruits. I love fruit bearing shrubs more than plants.
Do not misunderstand me; I have plants with beautiful flowers in different
colors too. I grow some vegetables also. It is very hard to keep all these
fresh in hot summer season in our land. Still we have them and they bear
fruits.
The
guava plant, the mulberry, the custard apple
and all else have one problems. Each of them bears only one kind of fruits. It
has not worried me yet; still I wish if one plant of any of them could bear all
kinds of fruits. I could plant one shrub in front of my house, in a beautiful
patch. I could water it well and care for it. I could bring it water even in
hot summer season. If it could bear all kinds fruits, I need not any other
plants. It could save me time, energy and other resources. That single tree
should bear guava, mulberry, apple, orange, grapes, strawberry all other fruits
in the world. Let each fruit reserve a branch for it. It is fine. I
could go to it without deciding what fruit I will eat on that day. I could just
look above and ask the tree itself what fruit it will give me that day. That
fruit will not be the one I ate yesterday.
One tree, all fruits!
It is a beautiful dream that will never
come true.
There is no tree that can bear all kinds
of fruits. Each tree bears only its own fruit. How much we try by cross
pollination or cross budding, no tree bears another fruit.
Thus apple tree bears only apples, never
oranges. Orange tress bears only oranges, never grapes.
Every tree is physically designed for
the particular fruit it is intended to bear.
Vine plats are not bushy like apple
trees. Mulberry plants are not strong like guava trees. Each tree is
genetically designed to bear a particular kind of fruit.
Genetic studies have improved a lot. The
knowledge of this science is used to improve the quality of fruits. Thus we
have larger and better apples, oranges and grapes now.
Every person is genetically designed to
bear a particular fruit.
There is no man with all perfect
qualities. If there were men with all perfect and good qualities, that would
have been wonderful.
Every person is a mixture of strength
and weakness, good and bad, positive and negative qualities. All great men and
women were a mixture. They were people like us.
But the goodness of great people
overwhelmed their weakness. Their strength was greater than their weakness.
Their merits hide their demerits. So we seldom talk about their weakness.
Great men are people who could cleverly
control and subdue all their weakness.
Do not expect your friend, partner,
spouse, sibling or colleagues to be perfect. If their goodness over shadows
their badness, let us accept them and appreciate them.
One way to become great and successful
in life is to learn to control and subdue the negatives in your character.
Great sages could do it. Ordinary people
could meet success in conquering negatives. You and I too can cover up our
demerits with merits of our character, if only we wish.
That is how great men and women are
born.
Professor
Jacob Abraham
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