The Story

A women who would carry water home every day from a river using two buckets at either end of a bamboo pole and one of the buckets was new and solid and the other was much older and had developed some small leaks and when the woman would finally get the buckets home, the new bucket would still have all of its water but the old bucket had lost almost half, and the old bucket felt very badly about this and apologized to the women saying how sorry it was that it could no longer do its job very well. So the women turned and pointed back down the road, and said to the old water bucket, "Do you see all those flowers growing on your side of the road?"