Preface: An apple tree of his learning from life narrates the story. It's an analogy to our life. If you read carefully with creativity you might be able to relate tree's learning to yours. Take your time out to read and see if it helps your moral to grew high.
It's my life. I have all the experiences. I have secretes, just like every other Tree has. I remember my childhood when I grew on the side of the road. It was a huge hill and my elders and I were on the top of it. The road was full of traffic every time, the entire tourist comes to visit me. Well not exactly me, they come to see the landscapes, the beauty of the nature and I am one of it.
My life is like in a heaven. It's so beautiful. A big road on one side and the deepest valley on the other. When I was a child there was no importance of me. People come visit, they look to the big trees, and they eat the apple from the big, beautiful trees. I was afraid that would ever someone going to appreciate me, praise me, love me, more then that at that time I was worried about my size. I was so small someone could have rumbled me on to reach to the apple of the big trees around me.
I remember my elderly, they grew me so well, and they fed me so well. They allowed the sunrays to fall on me when it is required, they gave me shadow and became obstacle for rain to directly fall on me, and they saved me from heavy winds. I was now happily enjoying my life with their love. One day I saw a guy jumping to reach my arm and didn't have any clue, what is that he is trying to do? Suddenly I felt pain in that arm and I saw he just plucked an apple from my arm. It was a red, big and beautiful fruit. I never saw that my self on me and I was so happy to see some one has saw that. Then I realized and asked my elderly. "Why is he plucking apple from me, its my apple then why is he eating that? Isn't it painful when they pluck an apple from you, it is a part of your body?" My elders they looked at me and gave a smile then replied " This is the motive of your life, to feed others and make them happy." I realized as good as my apples would be, as much as sweet they will be, that much I will be beautiful and people are going to appreciate me.
This went long for years. I produced lots of sweet apples. Some years I did it really well, sometimes it was not so good, but somehow I learned lots of lessons from my on going life. It is now the phase when I might have to give shadow and support to small plants near me. One day I saw some bunch of people came and cut down the big old trees. Some of them fell in the valley and some of them, these people dragged to the truck and loaded them, took them always. Thoese were my elders. I was all alone now; it was horrible day for me. May be it's the time to become elder for other. I know I might have to roll down the valley or cut down by the curse. I would love to fall down to valley and roll by my own; I never wanted my younger to see me dragged on the road. Anyways the life has to go on.
These days I am a very productive tree and people like eating my apples. The apples are big red and sweet; I can see it on their faces that they like eating it. There are two sides of me; one is on the roadside and another towards the valley. Everyone eats the apple from the roadside and nobody wanted to try and reach the apple on valley side. Why would anyone will take risk of life for an apple? And there I found the secret of my life. The hidden creativity as now when I see to thoese apple, they are more big, red, beautiful and of course sweeter then the others. If no one will eat them they will fall down and get wasted. Same as me everyone has some secret and I realized we should never hide it from anyone. We should never take it with us and get buried under the land. You may be creative, you may have a bundle of knowledge but if no ones know it, its of no use. You should always bring it in front. I feel that secret or I should say the hidden talent of your life is the motive of life, once you target it and achieve it, you will feel like you have solved the purpose of your life, that's what your are born to do.
I realized I have to bring my best part in front of all. I tried hard to bring my braches to the roadside, it took years to turn my branches and it was painful too. One year when the apples were on the arms, guess what, they were all reachable and now I am the most productive tree on that land. Though I am not so beautiful as I was. Now no one will ever cut me down, as I am useful to others, and I am happy that one day when I will be old I will fall down to the valley and free forever. Make your life as important and as useful to others. I am just a tree and I have solved the purpose of my life. When are you going to discover yours?
