Stories of Kindness from Around the World

Why Do You Share?


--by warmth, posted Dec 19, 2007
A reporter once asked a farmer to divulge the secret behind his corn, which won the state fair contest year after year. The farmer confessed it was all because he shared his seed with his neighbors.

"Why do you share your best seed corn with your neighbors when you're entering the same contest each year?" asked the reporter.

"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 grew inferior corn, cross-pollination would steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbor do the same."

And so it is with other situations in our lives. Those who want to be successful must help their neighbors, friends, relatives to be successful.

Those who choose to live well must help others live well, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.
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Readers Comments

bibirose wrote: tis, true we do reap what we sow!
Have a beautiful day!
JuneBug wrote: This story was beautiful! Thank you for sharing it!
lovebug wrote: Eloquent, is the word I would use for you warmth.Subtle, difficult to detect, that is another word I could use to describe you, but you did not escape my heart. Thank you for your eloqent words, they have warmed my heart.
lmil1954 wrote: Love it, love it, love it! Thank you! Have a blessed day, you've blessed mine!
brighteyes wrote: This is a good reminder story, a feel-good with a great morale and life advise....as the Christian story states, "What so ever you do to the least of my brothers, so you do onto me..."

Let's all treat others as we want to be treated- like family and friends....aren't all strangers just friends we haven't met yet???
Meghva wrote: Great thought.
Ekblom wrote: Very inspiring. I'm going to use this story in my presentations.
MisteMay wrote: Great story and inspiring as well.
ndi evaristus k wrote: No comment, the story was very inspiering to me. Thanks.
rose wrote: I liked these lines "The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grew inferior corn, cross-pollination would steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbor do the same" so much to learn from this :)

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