Your Grandpa, believes that we humans are self absorbed by mother nature and spend most of our time focusing on our own emotions, our pains, our fantasies and our happiness. During one of the harvesting wood trip, in a lorry, your Grandpa told Daddy that, we are just like a country pumpkin, we may be good in our wood business specialty, but there is always a lot of room for us to improve and we are like a kindergarten’s child in other fields.
Grandpa shared that the first thing when u open a pumpkin, (you may pick the different shape or size that you like), is to remove the seeds and pulp inside, before you even start to enjoy it in various preparations. In this case, grandma always prepare it with anchovies, simple and heart warming dish.
So according to grandpa, the seeds or inedible portion inside the pumpkin, is like our negative feelings, we need to remove them for positive things to come. (In this case, we are preparing a delicious pumpkin for our dinner 🙂
In many relationships, even between workers or business founder, like in grandpa case to our hardworking workers in the forest, you need to respect and balance it in a way like mother nature does. Even if someone hurt you, remember to remove the negative energy label and just be kind. (Like pumpkin)
The Pumpkins given by our workers. They are good people and always look for interesting harvest to give some to us.
Daddy hope you will remember this pumpkin story and find it useful in the journey of life.
