Once there was a small boy who was walking down the street eating a mango. And he was almost finishing eating that mango that he started to suck the seed of it. Then he realized how sweet the mango was and decided that instead of throwing that seed, he will sow that seed in to the ground and watch it grow in to a tree. And he dreamt of having many many mangoes from the tree when it grows big. So he dug up the ground and sowed that seed in the ground, closed it with the sand and went back home happily. The whole night he did not sleep. He was dreaming about the mango seed he has sown and wondering if it had started to become a sapling. He watched the stars and the moon by the window all thru the night. Then the sun rise, and he walked to the mango seed he has planted. He was sad he did not see any sapling yet, so he dug up the ground and took out the seed to see if it has sprouted. Since he did not see a sprout, he again buried the seed under the ground, covered with sand, watered it and went back home. Then the night again he was wondering about the mango seed and spent all night dreaming about it. The next day came, when he again went to the place he buried that mango seed, and took it out again from the sand to see if it has sprouted. Seeing that it has not, he planted it again with sadness and watered again before going home. Then the same dream of seeing that mango seed turn in to a plant kept him awake that night. Days passed by when the boy kept taking the seed off the ground to check if it has sprouted and putting it back again. Then one day when he did not see that the seed is not turned in to a sapling yet, he started crying out loud. His mother was nearby with him that day and asked him why he is crying. The boy then replied to his mom that he planted a seed, but that is not turning in to a plant. He is checking it every day but to no use since the seed is not sprouting. His mom calmly listened to him and asked him, "So you dig out the seed every time to check if it has sprouted?. And the boy said cryingly "yes". The mom looked at his innocent face and cast a subtle smile, wiping his tears, said "You don't need to dig that seed every day to check if it is sprouted or not, but you have to close the sand and trust that it will grow in to a plant. If you trust and care for that trust, it will turn in to a sapling". You don't need to cry, but you need to TRUST that seed. And she helped the boy close that seed with sand again and watered that plant and asked him to trust the seed and come back and check after a week. Then the week passed, and the boy saw a little sprout from the seed and is excited and felt immensely happy.
Similarly, in relationships, profession and in our walks of life, we keep checking on things, we get cautious, nervous about simple matters in life that we keep digging them to check to validate it, lacking the trust over it. We have to build trust in the things we do and believe that what we do in life will bear fruits one day and that trust is what will propel us forward with hope and will make miracles happen that we otherwise believed will not happen or keep checking our self-confidence there by not growing ourselves.
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