WHEN RIPE FRUIT SEES AN HONEST MAN, IT DROPS (2541 hits)
If you have been near a tree when the fruits are ripe to the point of rotting you know that the fruits are going to fall. In fact many deaths have been recorded in the tropics as a result of people being hit by falling 25 pound ripe coconut pods. Its interesting that something as nutritional as a fruit, can also be a dangerous projectile if nature has its way. You never know what will happen once you step into a forest, you have to be vigilant. Chances are that you could come into some food or you could end up being someone or something else's food.
For that kind of outcome its not too much to require one to pay a little more attention to what they are doing. I would rather worry about dealing with a mango stain on my shirt than have to worry about not seeing my loved ones because of death from being hit with a coconut pod on the head. That is the reality of life, on one hand life offers some extremely pleasant moments , while on the on the other hand it offers a boatload of pain. The truth of the matter is that ripe fruit cannot think, let alone thinking for itself. That means that it will not distinguish or discriminate on whose head to fall on, it will just fall when its time comes.
The only thing that you can do is hope that the ripe fruit that will be falling on you, will not be the 25 pound coconut pod. Because if that happens, you had better make sure that your affairs are in order. As you can clearly see, the falling of the fruit is not determined by whether the intended target is an honest man or not, this is a pre-destined event that has been ordained to happen. There is nothing that you will be able to do to prevent it from happening, its as inevitable as death. In toady's world everyone is anxious, about a whole lot of things, bills need to be paid, children need clothes, the car insurance has to be paid.
The pressure being realized from the vicissitudes of life will either make you fold up like a piece of paper , or you will discover the fighter within you. I believe in success, however I will not advocate for the get the money at all costs mentality. It takes a special genetic make up to be an ambulance chaser. I have been one. Please do not think that only lawyers are ambulance chasers, insurance sales people are ambulance chasers too. No offense to insurance sales people but they are just as cut throat as lawyers. I remember when I worked for a top insurance company as an agent. I made money doing it but I hated it, because of the training practices that this company used to procure business.
There is no reason under the sun, that can explain why someone would get so excited that his customer has just had a death in his family. I don't care what kind of commission you make from a transaction, you still should be able to sleep at night. I remember how my trainer would tell us that every time a client died, it was an opportunity for us as agents to generate leads by passing out our business cards to the mourners at the funeral. Their explanation was that, you could only make money based on how many people you talked to. Another reason that they gave for handing out business cards at funerals of clients was, that when a loved one is lying in a coffin, that's the best time for a potential sale, because people are thinking about their own mortality. This tactic worked perfect as a way to close deals.
The only problem was that , I was extremely disturbed when I used this sales technique. I had an hard time reconciling with my conscience, when I looked for reasons to explain away what I was doing. Pretty soon I became very stressed out and my performance dropped. I also soon begun noticing that every time I closed a sale in this fashion, I never had any peace. For some reason or the other, I could never really account for my spending habits when I made the money using that method of selling. Its clear to me now that, the reason why I could never account for the money I made when I used the funeral sales method, was because that was ill gotten gain. When ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops.
In other words when you do things in an honest and ethical manner, you will be justly rewarded and you will prosper. People who cut corners are always looking for greener pastures, they are always envying others for what is not theirs. Somehow they would rather steal from you than work for themselves and get their own. To the thief stolen food always tastes sweeter, they will never be content with what they have, they still have to have yours and will get it from you, even if they have to burst your head wide open to get it. When ripe fruit sees an honest man, it drops. You don't have to resort to cheating and stealing from others to get ahead, the grass is not always greener of the other side, and if it was green, by the time you get to that piece of grass it will turn brown because you have contaminated it with your greed.
People who are always trying to keep up with the Jones's, don't realize that the Jones's could be on their way to bankruptcy because they have not been making their mortgage payments. When ripe fruit sees and honest man, it drops. God knows who the honest man is, that's why he blesses them with fruit, fruit here represents Gods providence, brings prosperity and adds no sorrow. However, for that greedy person, who is consumed with gluttony, and envy the fruit falls on them too. Its not the good fruit, its the fruit that comes with judgement, do not be fooled, God is not a man that he should lie, nor the son of man that he should repent, whatever you saw, so shall you reap. Many people do not understand that its not just about reaping.
If you look at the laws of life, you never reap only what you sawed, you always get back what you deserve in an abundance. So if you do not want to be bombarded with misfortune, do not saw evil, because you will reap an overwhelming harvest of evil. It never comes back to you like you dished it out. They say God doesn't like ugly, the truth is , he is not really impressed with pretty either. When ripe fruit sees and honest man it drops. It drops because God sends it for your own good, not for your destruction.
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