DON’T BE SELF-OBSESSED.

Dev Shankar
2 min readOct 21, 2021

A man planted two trees on the same day. One of them was Eucalyptus (Safeda) and the other one was Acacia.

Safeda

The man took care of those plants as he would of his children. He would water them both every day.

Time passed and the plants grew into trees now.

There are some people who are self-obsessed, likewise, Eucalyptus (Safeda) would make fun of Acacia because it crooked over time, with its branches spreading in an uneven manner & Safeda was standing straight & growing taller day by day.

The man too pampered the Safeda tree more than he paid attention to Acacia.

This went on for many years and finally, the day came which The Safeda tree would have never even imagined.

The man who loved Safeda so dearly had sold it to a merchant, who cut the tree down.

Acacia

Safeda cried a lot and Acacia was as calm as it had always been and always held its place for years and years.

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Dev Shankar

Film maker and Author of "ZAMEEN KE PARINDEY", Storyseller.