A man sat down by a tree every day for 2 weeks. It was a beautiful Wisteria tree with purple flowers. Every day, around the same time, he would come to the park and sit by this tree. On the fourteenth day, he came to the park and approached the tree and as he sat down, he closed his eyes as he always did. Only this time when he opened them, the tree withered and died before him. The man then looked around and before he knew it, he had found that he never came to the tree at all, but was in an asylum the whole time. Justin Bienvenue
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When Nelson Mandela was incarcerated, he would always sit by a Wisteria tree in the prison yard. One day, a guard noticed this and asked if he knew anything about the tree. It turned out that this guard had been a friend of his, and had been hospitalized for two weeks because of a broken leg. When he was released, the guard would every day go to the same spot and sit down to rest.

A nurse who knew him came one day to visit him and she saw what he was doing. She told him that you cannot mend broken legs with time, but you can mend broken spirits, so she told him to go see the tree every day. She also told him that she would visit him every day after work to keep him company.

That’s exactly what Mandela did.

Source: Opium Warfare

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