A touching story
A story was told about a little boy who loved to climb trees , he had this particular tree that was his favorite and that was the apple tree , The boy would climb on its branches , eat of it's fruits and play with it's trunks . He will pass the afternoon under the shade of the tree , he loved the tree and the tree really loved him too
But years passed , and the little boy is now growing into a young man , he never came around the apple tree to play again or rest under and this made the tree very sad and gloomy , then one day , the boy came around and stood at a distance, the tree saw him and was very excited, he said to the boy "Come and play with me" but the boy replied "Can't you see that I am no longer a child that climb trees and play around them, I'm and grown now and need some money to buy myself toys " , The tree although hurt by those words had to fake a smile and said to the boy " well my friend, you can all pluck my fruits and sell them in the market and get yourself a toys from the earnings. The boy was so happy, he plucked the fruits and left.
Many years passed again and the boy never came back to the tree , and one day he came again, the tree was very excited and said to the boy come and play with me but he replied can't you see I am grown now?? what I need now is to take care of my family and I need to build them a house can you help me with that ??? then the tree replied "oh yes, cut off my branches and make a house for your family" the man was very excited , he cut off all the tree's branches and left .
Months and years passed again and the man never came back to the tree again, then one day he came back , this time as an old man, the tree excited for seeing his friend for a such a long time said to him " come and play with me " but the man replied , my bones are weak and I can't climb anymore what I need how is to make a boat and set sail to ease pressure" then the tree said "cut off my trunk and make yourself a boat .the boy happily obeyed and set sail and never returned to the tree again
Then after many years the boy came back to the tree and this time he was aged when the tree saw him tears filled it's eyes and he said to him I am sorry my good friend I don't have branches for you to play on and I don't have fruits for you to eat, but the old man replied I am old now and I don't even have teeth for fruits, my bones are weak and I can't claim trees so what I need now is a place to rest and roots of trees at the best place for them, then the tree smile and said, come and rest on me it's been a long while my good friend
The boy in this story refers to us and the tree refers to our parents, they give their all for us to be happy and go extra miles of giving from themselves just for us to be happy, but some people keep neglecting their parents until it is too late . Let this story be an eye opener and make us appreciate the sacrifices of our parents well enough
