One beautiful spring day a red rose blossomed
in a forest. Many kinds of trees and plants grew there. As the rose looked
around, a pine tree nearby said, "What a beautiful flower. I wish I was
that lovely." Another tree said, "Dear pine, do not be sad, we can
not have everything.The rose turned its head and remarked, "It
seems that I am the most beautiful plant in this forest."
A sunflower raised its yellow head and asked,
"Why do you say that? In this forest there are many beautiful plants. You
are just one of them." The red rose replied, "I see everyone looking
at me and admiring me."
Then the rose looked at a cactus and said,
"Look at that ugly plant full of thorns!" The pine tree said,
"Red rose, what kind of talk is this? Who can say what beauty is? You have
thorns too.
The proud red rose looked angrily at the pine and
said, "I thought you had good taste! You do not know what beauty is at
all. You can not compare my thorns to that of the cactus."
"What a proud flower", thought the trees.
The rose tried to move its roots away from the
cactus, but it could not move. As the days passed, the red rose would look at
the cactus and say insulting things, like: This plant is useless? How sorry I
am to be his neighbor."
The cactus never got upset and he even tried to
advise the rose, saying, "God did not
create any form of life without a purpose."
Spring passed, and the weather became very warm.
Life became difficult in the forest, as the plants and animals needed water and
no rain fell. The red rose began to wilt. One day the rose saw sparrows stick
their beaks into the cactus and then fly away, refreshed. This was puzzling,
and the red rose asked the pine tree what the birds were doing. The pine tree
explained that the birds got water from the cactus.
"Does it not hurt when they make holes?" asked the rose.
Yes, but the cactus does not like to see any birds suffer," replied the pine.
The rose opened its eyes in wonder and said, "The cactus has water?"
"Yes you can also drink from it. The sparrow can bring water to you if you ask the cactus for help." The red rose felt too ashamed of its past words
and behavior to ask for water from the cactus, but then it finally did ask the
cactus for help. The cactus kindly agreed and the birds filled their beaks with
water and watered the rose's roots.
Moral of the Story :
A proud rose thinks that it’s superior to other plants in the forest because of its beauty.
But it later learns that beauty is not the only thing when it sees the cactus helping thirsty birds.
- 1.A beautiful rose looked down upon an ugly cactus but
after the dry season came it got ashamed of its insulting words as it saw
the cactushurt itself to provide water for birds. - 2. The passage mainly tells us that a red rosethought
a cactus was very ugly because of its thorns. However, when it
became dry and no rain fell, the cactus could bring water to the
birds and roses, which made the rose ashamed.
- 3.Being proud of its outer beauty, the red roselaughed at the cactus.
However, spring passed and the red rose was dying. At that
moment, it saw birds suck water from the cactus and realized
what the true beauty was. - 4. The proud red rose laughed at the cactus for its ugly appearance and thorns, but in hot and
dry weather, it was the cactus’ thorns that provided lifesaving water
to birds, which shamed the rose.
- The story happened in natural world, but the moral it teaches us can be applied
to human society. Everyone has his or her own value in the world. We
should not tease or look down upon others even if they are not superior in
one field, because they might be excellent and generous in other fields,
which we are not good at. In these cases, we need to ask them for help.
Everyone has advantages and eventually shines.
- . The story mentioned above reminds us of thinking
what real beauty is. From the comparisonbetween
the proud red rose and the ugly but kind cactus, we have learnt that real beauty lies inside, where kindness and generosity
live; but not from outside, where selfishness roots.
Helen Keller, a woman who is blind but brave. Although she doesn’t have
a beautiful face, she is always kind to others and does everything in her power to save people who are also disabled. So generous is she that everyone respects and loves her.
She tells us the meaning of beauty, which is noble in our society.
And Finally the main moral is :
Never judged anyone by their appearance
God did not create any form of life without
a
purpose.
With Love,
Sridhar
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