Your post reminds me of a story about Nasreddin Turkey's Holy or Wise Fool whose neighbors were mocking him for planting the seeds of apple trees he would never see grow & produce fruit. And he replied that he was planting for the future.
"...Happiness is amazing. It’s so amazing, it doesn’t matter if it’s yours or not. There’s that lovely thing: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That’s it. The end.”
I am printing this to keep on my desk as a reminder. Thank you, Jeff, for planting lots of trees!
Your post reminds me of a story about Nasreddin Turkey's Holy or Wise Fool whose neighbors were mocking him for planting the seeds of apple trees he would never see grow & produce fruit. And he replied that he was planting for the future.
"...Happiness is amazing. It’s so amazing, it doesn’t matter if it’s yours or not. There’s that lovely thing: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That’s it. The end.”
I am printing this to keep on my desk as a reminder. Thank you, Jeff, for planting lots of trees!