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?’
And the flower will answer: ‘I am beautiful, and beauty is my reason for living.’
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, Z5 _! O1 E. R7 a) EAsk the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
7 i+ a8 j6 \* L  S' U+ R7 y' fAnd the river will answer: ‘I’m not trying to be useful, I’m trying to be a river.’
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& v' \( Q  ^$ O2 p" ?& kNothing 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.

  h, T' r4 H9 j. y8 ^Soon 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.
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0 K6 ^- g; h( y# W$ j8 qDon’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."---paulo coelho

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