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?’
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' V2 n$ A& k. T) \* q& mAsk the river: ‘Do you feel useful, given that all you do is to keep flowing in the same direction?’
0 e) r% |+ _1 M4 f$ E6 a- VAnd 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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/ }* I# _' w2 Q6 m- PEven you, the person asking the question. ‘I’m useless’ is the answer you give yourself.
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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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Don’t try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough, and that makes all the difference."---paulo coelho

vincent