Rose and Cactus

Once in a forest, a beautiful red rose blossomed. When Rose saw around he found that everyone was admiring its beauty. One of the trees said, “I wish I was as lovely as a rose..”

Rose listened to that and said, “I know I am the most beautiful flower in this forest.”
To this, another flower replied, “Do be so proud. There are many other beautiful flowers in this forest.”

Then one day Rose saw a cactus and said, “What an ugly plant it is… it’s full of thorns.”
Listening to this another flower replied, “Why do you say that?? Who can say what beauty is?? You have thorns too..”

Proud red rose looked angrily at that flower and said, “You can not compare my beauty and thorns to that of cactus.”

All the trees and flowers around the rose thought,” What a proud flower..”

With every passing day, Rose would say insulting things to Cactus and wanted to move away from it.

Cactus never felt bad or sad and always used to say to Rose, “God did not create any form of life without any reason.”

At the time pass weather changed and life became difficult in the forest because of no rain. Rose began to wilt.

One day Rose saw birds sticking their beak into cactus and then flying away refreshed. Rose was puzzled to see that. Then a tree explained rose that birds were getting refreshed from the water they got from cactus.

Rose asked, “Doesn’t it hurt cactus when birds make holes in it?”

Tree replied, “It does but cactus doesn’t like to see birds suffer.”

Rose opened its eyes in wonder and felt ashamed for the behavior towards the cactus and felt sorry for it.