Apache Seasons
There was once a man who had four sons. He
wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them
each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that The first son
went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and
the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he
called them together to describe what they had seen.
The first son said “the tree was ugly,
bent, and twisted.”
The second son said “no, it was
covered with green buds and full of promise.”
The third son disagreed; he said “it was
laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the
most graceful thing I have ever seen.”
The last son disagreed with all of them;
he said “it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfilment.”
The man then explained to his sons that
they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the
tree's life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by
only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure,
joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end,
when all the seasons are up. “If you give up when it's winter, you will
miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, the fulfilment of your fall.”
Do not judge others by just one event or
"season" in their lives.
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