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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 769 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
There’s an interesting story about a man who was clearing the stones and rocks from his field. They were disturbing the growth of his produce, so rather than disposing of them in a suitable area he just did what was easiest for him at the time. He just threw them onto the path in front of his property.
Passing by one day, as the landowner was at the time clearing his fields, and another older man came by and said, “What are you doing? Why are you throwing stones from a place that isn’t yours into a place that is yours?”
Well, the landowner stopped his work for a moment and he looked at who was speaking to him. He then realized that the old man must be a fool. He laughed at him and he said, “What are you saying? The opposite is true. You see, I’m throwing stones from my land on to public property.”
The old man shook his head and he passed by. Throughout the rest of the day the field owner remembered this conversation and he would break out in laughter every time he thought about it. He continued to clear his field, throwing the stones on to the path. He thought this was the best way to do it.
Not too longer after, the landowner found himself burdened with a huge debt, and in order to pay for it he had to sell his field. After which he became a laborer.
One day, as he was walking home from work, he began reminiscing about the good old days. Since he was not concentrating on the path in front of him he tripped over a rock. This was in the path, and he fell flat on his face. As he managed to lift his body up, he looked and noticed.
“Why,” he said, “this is right in front of my old fields. This is what I used to own once and the stone I’ve just tripped over is one of those stones, if I recall, that I had thrown from my field onto the public property. And now this path belongs to me, like everybody else who passes by and it caused this accident for me.”
You see, we don’t expect that anyone will trip over some kind of candy wrapper, or receipt or some things that we just throw. We just toss it out on the sidewalk, or somewhere. We don’t dream of littering the house that we live in, or letting our guest or children do the same. But we don’t pay attention when we are outside.
Why not pay closer attention to that? Because the great outdoors is also our home.
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