Do you feel useful

王珍

"Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’
. B+ f7 J, v/ o5 c  o* [And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’

  _* `0 i$ y1 `9 E- qAsk the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
2 z7 U8 V& v" o, t$ T; G/ }! kAnd the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’
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Nothing in this world is useless in the eyes of God. Not a leaf from a tree falls, not a hair from your head, not even an insect dies because it was of no use. Everything has a reason to exist.
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Even you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself.
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, E# V" Z+ \4 A* h9 j( u" YSoon that answer will poison you and you will die while still alive, even though you still walk, eat, sleep and try to have a little fun whenever possible.

9 q& ?' y; a1 ]/ ]Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."---paulo coelho

vincent