A lesson...

This post I owe to my dad.
I was walking back to my place with my dad from the parking lot and he randomly pointed out to this baby peepal plant and said that it was his inspiration. I thought that he had used the wrong word so I put on my "Ha! I am smarter than you!" expression and pointed it out. He got back at me by saying that he knew what inspiration meant.
He went on to tell me that that peepal plant had been cut down atleast five times in the past few years and had regrown. Since it was on the premises of a government building, it was cut down every time it grew a bit. After it kept regrowing, they got tired of cutting it and decided to uproot it completely. They dug a hole into the ground where it grew and pulled it out from its roots. This was a few months back. Still, here it is today, a fresh sapling.
He went on to tell me how we must never loose hope in life. Even thought we may have major setbacks, we must always regrow and replenish ourselves and believes in ourselves. Obstacles will come and go but we have got to keep going. I already knew this from before and had read several stories with this moral but this small little lesson that my dad gave me actually brought a wide long-lasting smile to my face. I don't know whether it was because I realised the beauty of Nature in the smallest of things or whether it was seeing the love and care in my dad's eyes when he told me the story. Whatever it was, the tiny little sapling made my day!