Tree of Values

I had the privilege to a Peace Leadership workshop last week and gained some valuable knowledge. One interesting description used in the workshop was how our values resemble seeds in a tree. It takes time, effort, will and energy to water our plant's seed to enable it to grow into a small plant, and subsequently into a tree.

The same concept goes for our moral values. We needed time to experience lots of rise and fall in between events and happening, have a strong will to rise up from our faults and put more efforts to correct our mistakes and values to enable us to grow as a person. In the meantime, we also need to protect ourselves from harmful insects such as negative social values, etc from harming our moral values.

I guess such learning process will keep repeating itself, and what matters most is what we learned in the process of growing our positive values.