This Hindu story tells the story of a peasant who lived selling water at the market. There were about ten pots. Every day a wooden rod was put on his shoulders very early, and at each end he carried a vase and took it to the well to fill them, then headed to the center of town to sell the water. One was broken.
Interestingly, this hardworking man always took the cracked vase to make the first trip of the day, took it with a vase in perfect condition to the well where the water was, patiently collected the liquid and transported it for more than two. Kilometers.
“Anything that gives us happiness is useful. Auguste Rodin?
As you can imagine, by the time the cracked vase hit the market, he had already lost much of the water it contained, so the farmer could only charge half the price agreed for this vase. overflowed and allowed him to charge the full price.
Soon, the other ships began to comment on the situation among themselves. They couldn’t explain why the man always kept the cracked vase because it made him lose money every day. They also didn’t understand why he always carried her on his first trip of the day.
On the other hand, the cracked vase began to be ashamed, he had been accompanying the peasant for ten years and loved him very much, he felt bad when he realized that it was only an obstacle, nor did he understand why he had not been deported.
He remembered the time when it was a wonderful vase, very useful to its owner, there was not a single flaw. He was one of the strongest in this daily work, however, one day the peasant stumbled, and that’s when the vase broke and became difficult to use, that was a long time ago and the man hadn’t thrown the vase yet.
The peasant was doing something that caught the eye of the cracked vase and the rest, at certain times, on his daily journey to the well with the empty containers, the man put his hand in his pocket and threw something along the way. what it was.
Suddenly, the peasant stopped doing this for a while. Then he did the same thing again, but on the other side of the road. He intrigued all the vases, but since it was something he didn’t do all the time, they soon forgot and curiosity happened.
The conversations between the new pots tormented the cracked pot, in fact, he regretted being so unattended and causing harm to those who had bought and kept him for so long, so without thinking he decided to talk to the peasant to kick him out.
One night, while the peasant was resting, the cracked pot called him and told him that he needed to talk to him, the man was ready to listen to the vase, very attentive to what he wanted to tell him. more preamble, I told him what I thought of him. I knew I loved her, but I wasn’t used to being useless. I didn’t want you to take him away from compassion. garbage and take her down.
The peasant smiles when he hears it. He told her he had never thought of throwing it away, because it was very useful. “Useful?” Asked. He ordered the vase. How useful would it be to lose money only every day?The man asked him to calm down a little. The next day, I’d show off what he loved so much, the cracked vase barely made it to sleep!
The next day, the peasant said, “I ask you, please, to observe everything on both sides of the way to the well. “The vase was very thoughtful. He looked both ways and could only see a beautiful path full of floral buttons. When he arrived at the well, he told the farmer that he had seen nothing to give him an answer.
The man looked at you tenderly and said, “Since you’ve broken, I’ve thought of the best way to continue enjoying yourself, so I decided to spread seeds along the way from time to time. Thanks to you, I was able to water them every day and thanks to you, when everything blooms, I can bring flowers and sell them on the market at a higher price than the water itself.
It was then that the cracked vase understood what its beautiful mission was.