“Hang around thinkers, and you’ll be a
better thinker. Hang around winners, and you’ll be a better winner. Hang around
a bunch of complaining, gripping boneheads, and you’ll become a better
complaining, gripping bonehead.”-
Sharon
Lechter & Greg Reid, Three Feet of Gold
What
an honour it is to be writing a guest post on The House Newf today. I
am a teen entrepreneur from Montserrat, and this year I set off on a journey to
encourage others to listen to what nature has to teach us because I believe
that nature offers us a wealth of wisdom, if we are willing to listen. This
journey inspired me to publish The Farm of Wisdom: 25 Unforgettable Tales that Will Ignite a Wiser You,
a book which not only shares life lessons through memorable stories, but also
makes readers more conscious of what animals, plants and nature in general are seemingly
teaching us.
Plants and animals have taught me that we become what we are surrounded by! The environment that we are in and the people who we are
around play a major role in our development. What
follows is a parable about eight guavas who found out the hard way that the
atmosphere we are in can either nurture or spoil us.