Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The Fruit

They saw an endless garden. It was huge; bigger than their imagination. They didn't know what to do with it. Playing house on it? Or maybe camping? Running? Jumping would be good too! And then what?
"What did people use to do in ancient times on gardens?" asked the little girl to the little boy.
The little boy shook his shoulders as usual. " I don't know.." he said.
The little girl was much more little than the little boy but she was such a mischievous one. She said " I will just ask around and find out what else we can do in this garden!" and then she pulled the little boy's shirt up and she also pushed him in the lake and she ran away of course: She knew that his revenge would be glorious! :)
Actually it wasn't only her who was very crurious about the answer: The little boy was also trying to find a good answer about that garden. He felt like a big man and he just felt it deep inside that there was more than playing in this world. "There must be a bigger purpose, a more important occupation for me and for her in the future" he said to himself.
A few days later they met again to put their info power together and save the mankind! YES, these were the exact words she used, and the boy was unbelievably admiring her imagination but he never liked to show it to her: " Why spoiling her?" was his motivation. Ah, boys boys boys. 
If she was a less smart bunny "maybe" he would risk to spoil her ? Well, as we all know "maybe" means 50/50 chance :)
As for the information they all got was this: "You plant fruit in a garden! You plant trees and when it is the right season the trees will have fruit: Lots of fruit."  Wow what a hard job, what a big calling it was for them...They had never planted trees before. They had no idea how to plant , where to start, how to take care of the trees...This planting job required lots of and lots of care, knowledge, wisdom, hard labor, responsibility and even love...How do you plant trees if you don't love the them first of all?
...but they were a team and they decided to be an invincible, no fear team! YES, these were again her exact words she used, and the boy was unbelievably admiring her imagination again, otherwise what else was he allowed to do? :) He was a good encouraging litttle boy.
Their planting schedule was getting more and more busy. They had to be quick because some seasons were not good for some kind of fruit ..as they learned.
Once there was very very big storm and the storm hurt some of the trees, poor trees were not able to bare fruit at all . The little girl was very sad and the little boy was actually very disappointed with her because he thought she wasn't serious enough about her job. However if you asked her she would say the same thing, the same accusation about him! 
There were better times too. Both of them were taking this planting job very seriously and they were working very diligently and carefully. They were growing physically and emotionally, acting less childish and more like adults. Oh how much they wanted to see the various fruit.
One morning it snowed so hard that most of the trees lost their flowers suddenly and there was no way for those flowers to turn into fruit. The little girl cried , the little boy cried and unfortunately they ended up accusing eachother for not taking good care of the trees in hard seasons. Their falsely accusing words were more than their tears. Who was right? It doesn't matter because life is so short and they had to remember that their life calling wasn't for to fight anymore but to plant and take more and more responsibility. Obviously they had a lot to learn and they were definitely learning but thorough the difficult way.
There was a time when they didnt have any rain, a severe drought...They hadn't seen any fruit yet .
There was another time when it was too hot...
It seemed like although there was hardship at planting, the little girl and the boy were learning still from the situations and from eachother. They didn't accuse eachother much: Even better: They stopped it and really focused on planting. They were so busy with planting and loving their trees that they couldn't even notice that time was going good, the work was going good even in the hardships of planting and the seasons.
The spring came...The trees had flowers on finally! The flowers turned to various fruit! They all had different colors , different taste and smell. She had grown up to a very polite nice young lady and he grew up to a very good polite young man, they kept giving eachother these fruit as gifts. They called the fruit: trust
After that, the town people always saw them talking to eachother like this: " Here is my gift, please take my trust, it is good, no rotten spot on it " she was saying, and he was saying " Oh thank you my lady, you are so kind, here is my trust for you too, it is fresh" 
And their trees in the garden never stopped bearing fruit: the trust 
And their trees bore trust in hard times and in good times.
I guess that is a very trustworthy ending!

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