The grass on the other side

Simply great ! Thanks for sharing & referral, Sujatha.

Nice story and very well said. But in this materialistic world, comparison is unavoidable. One way out of this is to think of some one in a worser condition than you. Once you do that, you will quietly say a prayer to thank god that he has kept you in a better position. Beleive me this works and i have done it many a time when i was down on motivation !

Nice story and very well said. But in this materialistic world, comparison is unavoidable. One way out of this is to think of some one in a worser condition than you. Once you do that, you will quietly say a prayer to thank god that he has kept you in a better position. Beleive me this works and i have done it many a time when i was down on motivation !

Great Story..thx

Good message expressed in a simple way.. Sujatha, Thanks for the referral.. 

very clearly presented by you darshana, it's important for us to know as to where we stand and what we have. 

" We always look at others and the feeling of jealousness comes in us. We want what other have. We want to be where other are.  "<br/>
There is nothing wrong with this attitude AS LONG AS you achieve what you want through hard work. Honestly - we should keep trying every day for something better either for ourselves or for somebody else(world).

"The pole did not think how important was it and how it gave..."
You should be answerable only to yourself and not to others. The moment you listen to others (unless that person is interested in you doing well),you are finished, you are defeated.

Human nature is to feel jealous, which is very unfortunate. The story has been explained very nicely. Thanks Sujatha for referral.

Openly rendered services are much appreciated & visible to everyone as the case of a Tree whereas the Indirect service rendered may not be, very open to all & well recognized by everyone as the case of the Pole(electricity illuminate but pole is the media). However, we should not forget the fact that "self-praising"(tree) spoils many a lives(pole) among the population.

True n touching....thnx Sujatha..

The example given in this may not be confuse about envirement and deforest activities.Other so many examples can be found in historical books.I know the object of subject but we are all have to think first for mother earth.

Excellent Story........Very nice and appreciated. 
Thanks for sharing with us.

Interesting ancedote, yes we human often underestimate the value and worth of people around us!! such a pity

The psychological explanation of jelousy is "it is the reflection of what the person against whom one is jelousy would have felt if he was not in the position he is at present which is an instigation for others to feel jelousy". So jelousy is a mirror reflection of a persons emotions when it is fulfilled when it starts reflecting in others posterior to his or her position.
Adma Smith advised in his magnum opus the "Wealth of Nations" that one should allow anyone interested in making money do so without hinderence otherwise they will turn up against the nation as terrorists of vandals disurupting the economy. I feel it is for the sake of the above dictum he advised so, though Freudian psychology came 200 years after Adam Smiths directions.
So one need not feel upset if one feels jelousy at someone or something owned by someone since it is only the reflection of that persons emotion if he was not in that position or in possession of the thing that causes the jelousy.

Beautiful story ,Thanks for the referral Sujatha .

it is human nature that needs seldom fulfill. what is luxury today will become necessity tomorrow and what we miss today will become requirement again and what others have will be more attractive. thanks for bringing this into discussion Sujatha

will we happy  if we got all our requirements fulfilled.We never satisfy with what we have or what we achieved.If we satisfied there will be no growth financially.The world and we are materialized.so this depression Nothing harm in it you have to fall and then you have to raise on your own that is the real thing.if its wrong let it be you will realize the truth today or tomorrow the period depends on your wisdom.if the pole does not know what it was then it has to fall but the day is not end with that the pole fall across the river and make a bridge to cross over   .people felt happy. children jumped .The tree smiled. never forget all are useful.nothing over the earth is useless.

very nice thought .... really true ....to know your worth is very important .....to succeeed in life :)

It is human nature and perhaps the development is because of this nature.

Thats a nice story..:-)

Many such stories are required to emphasize the strength of every individual, who is unique in some respects!  Thanks Ms. Sujatha for this great story, and its timely when accusations of some nature or the other is plaguing this great forum, TOOSTEP!

excellent presentation.

The story well meaningful. We always compare with others and try to be like others in the process we fail to recongise our own talent and abilities. From the childhood onwards our parents and ealders teches us to compare and think like others. I strongly believe that every individual has got one or the other talent. One should discovery one's ability and utilise it for the good of oneself and others. I wish to cite one example here our great petrolum minister while increasing the price of diesel and cooking gas was making comprision with our next door countries adnsaying that our prices are still lower, this is way we justify this mistake. we should be what we are and stand firm on what we are. 

Excellent story.. The post script is more interesting !!

Good one with a beautiful message.  One should know what he/she is?  He/she need not get down by the comments of others.  My favourite novelist Mr. Yandamuri Veerendra in his one of the great books he wrote said "Successful people come to know the best qualities within himself/herself so early, the unsuccessful people fail to understand their own best qualities and takes a life time to know themselves".  If you are down, you are out.  Know what is best in you and win.  

Well, the pole was fool... that he just started feeling bad and died.. as if he did something wrong.(That's really the condition of talented people in India).The problem is there was no one to guide the pole what to do next. And the tree... he/she was not at all wrong.
The pole was standing there and distributing electricity free of cost to the people. That's the reason people didnot have any value to his work. Instead of dying he could better stop giving electricity free and charge for it... say 4Rs/unit ( lower than what the govt costs). He could give much better services, so that more people could get attracted. 
At last after earning enough, he could just buy a very big umbrella ( bigger than the shade of the tree), some buckets of fruits etc. After then he could just invite the tree for dinner. 
I bet.. this time tree would catch fire and die. :)

Nice story i like that..

I asked several people what they thought success was. One person said that "Success is making loads of money." Another said that success is "Achieving your goals". Some one else said that success is "Fulfilling your potential". An interesting answer was that success is "Making others jealous..

Nice message indeed,the message is one is rich or poor,contentment and happiness is the
essence of life.

Dear Ms. Sujata....,
Rally nice & appreciated Insight story Posting....

Nice article 

Great story and mostly resembling me in the place of that pole.
I nearly have seen the mirror when I thought about that pole. 
Thank's for making me realize the importance of me.............
I really appreciate this.