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?’
, ?# a( y) S. u5 Y; j6 UAnd the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’
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. c3 r) \" K$ D3 q. e  j0 ?Ask the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
And the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’

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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% F. m. ?3 A5 M: U: Z0 v2 G, oSoon 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.

: [- M" [7 Q5 k1 cDon’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."---paulo coelho

vincent