When the oldmen last hour came, he called his children and said, "Children, I am leaving. Before you die, I have one thing to tell you. Listen carefully. Listen carefully to this, and then I will tell you why I am saying this!"
The children listened to the father's words and stared.
The old man looked at everyone and then said, An oak tree grew in the forest. It grew and grew and became very big. It caught fruit; the fruit ripened and fell from the branch. Its big roots went deep into the ground and sucked the sap and made the tree grow! A storm broke out, but nothing happened to the tree. It stood tall despite all the dangers. Once a man went to that forest. An acorn fell on that tree. Then he threw it down the hill. As time passed, he cleaned its branches and carried it to the woodshed. In the woodshed, he sawed it and made beautiful smooth boards. That year, in the summer, a farmer came to that woodshed. What did he do?
He bought all the boards and went home. Then he sat on the tree and joined the boards with iron bars and hammered thorns and made a beautiful ring. Whoever saw the tank was happy. He made a tank with such joints that even if a bucket was poured from it, the water did not spill. Do you know what he did in that tank? He kept water in the tank to drink and gave water to the villagers to drink. He kept water in it like this not for a day and a half, but for months, months, and years. Once the iron tube that was used to hold the planks together came loose. The planks became loose. No more water could be stored in it! Someone had taken some planks for the children to play with, and they took the iron tube and rolled it in the village streets. He opened the tank and made the planks that were lying around into a pile. Saying this, the old man looked at the children and asked Story of the Woodshed: Life Lessons from a Tree
- Tell me, child, what did you learn from this story?
The old oldmen five sons are sitting looking at the oldmen face. All five of them, after listening to the story, think
He kept thinking for a while, but no one could say anything. When the boys did not say anything, the old man shook his head slightly and said, "So listen what I want to say -"
Children, you cannot understand anything from here. I am explaining why I told this story. The country is a forest. This is a dense forest. The trees of the forest climb up. The wooden hut is the family and we all are the planks that hold it together. And, the iron plank that holds it together is unity. The water that lives in it is our joyful and happy life. As long as there is harmony in the family, life will be happy. The house, the family in which there is no unity, there is no harmony, that is not a home, that family is not a family. See children, how the planks of the hut stay together without breaking.
Hearing this from the old man's mouth, the elder son said while caressing his head, "Father, don't worry. I remember what you said. As long as there is life in this body, we will never forget this."
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