*Lessons on Life*

There was 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 was a great distance away.

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've ever
seen'.

The last son disagreed with all of them; he said, 'It was ripe and drooping
with fruit, full of life and fulfillment'.

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, fulfillment of your fall.

*Moral lessons:*

Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.

Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better times are sure to come
some time or later.

It is interpreted as a wheel of life in different perspective.

*The following pictures are of the same place but taken in different seasons...*

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