Copying from Other's Gardens

We humans seem to have some weird demands. One of the most popular among them is that we want to be superior to every person we know. When we meet a person having virtues different than ours or is superior to us in a particular field, we become upset. We want to be the one who is so great that whenever another person compares himself/herself with us,
that person will be ashamed and will, in turn, be upset.

      

    

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To gain superiority over others, we employ various means. Some of us believe that changing our lifestyle to that of the elite will do the work. Thus, we seem to want the latest gadgets in the market, paying scant attention to the hard work our idols went through to reach their current status. The remaining part of the population believes that being different from others is an obstacle on the roadway to glamour. So, they change themselves and become clones of the rest of the population. In a nutshell, we lose our garden’s uniqueness and beauty by planting the seeds of the flowers in others’ gardens.

      

     To make their gardens the most sought-after, some people take the advice of some not-so-sought-after fellow gardeners. What these people don’t seem to understand is that these ‘more experienced at counseling than at writing’ gardeners don’t seem to bother about watering their own gardens.

      

     The human civilization is full of billions of gardens. If it had only those gardens that have rose or jasmine, the world wouldn’t have been as colorful as we see it today. The Creator knew this and so gave different flowers to each garden. But even today, some of us keep trying their whole lives trying to live somebody else’s life.

      

     The flowers in our garden are not to be found anywhere else on life. Let’s preserve this garden and do our part for the society.