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This is a very old story from Persian
Wisdom:
Challenge
Once upon a time, all
of earth's elements decided to have a competition to determine
which one would be their King. The winner would be the one
capable of arriving first in the deepest valley on earth.
All of the contestants
gathered around the top of the highest mountain on earth
called "Ambition"; which was the starting point. The race
track went through wood lands, rain forests, aburpts,
headlands, oceans and other difficult and unique barriers.
With the starting sign,
all started to flow down toward the famous valley called
"Stability". At the beginning the race, the biggest stone drew
away first, spinning and twirling. It descended fast and at
first destroyed everything that stood in its way.
In the first, second and third forests
in its way, the stone broke all of trees, scattered all weaker
stones and shattered animal houses in its path and continued
with the highest speed. Nothing could resist it or decrease
its power. Colliding with everything, the stone was an
aggressive invader.
It, however, never completed the race,
because with every collision it lost some of its strength.
Half-way through the race it had become only a small stone
which was advancing at a snail's pace and was searching
somewhere safe.
Do you know who won? Water.
Water won because it had three superior qualities.
It
had "a purpose", the ability to pass over the deepest valley.
It had "plan" to easily flow through the narrow
passageways and plunges.
And finally it was flexible
enough to easily overcome every challenge such as woods,
aburpts, barriers, dams and blocks.
There is also a great difference
between the charecter of the King Water and others.
Despite the stonelike materials, which were aggresive invader
in behavior with weaker things, the King Water was
helpful to everyone's thirst during the time of the
competition tolerantly. It loved others
unconditionally and helped to make them grow. Not
also water becomes the king of earth, but also
everything reacts to its unconditional helps with
gratitude and generosity.
(Special
Thanks to Jasmine Spirit)
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