Honesty and Couragiousness in The Seed

There are very few honest and courageous people in the world. Honesty is the fairness and uprightness of a person when dealing with truthfulness. Someone who is courageous is someone who is brave and characterized by having a lot of courage. One who has the courage to be honest is someone who can achieve the highest glory and praise from those who surrounds them. In “The Seed,” there is a young man who shows the people in his community how just being honest made him receive the highest amount of authority. During the “The Seed,” the young boy was called along with all the rest of the boys in his kingdom, to meet with the emperor. The emperor made an announcement that he will be stepping down and finding someone else to take his place. For the choosing of that special boy, the Emperor, without telling them, gave all the boys boiled seeds; telling them to come back in a year. All but one boy came back with full grown trees and that was because they lied and switched their seeds. Well the one boy who came without a tree, held an empty planter in his hand thinking he was the joke of the kingdom. When in fact, the king was looking for someone who would be trusted enough not to switch the seed. The young man became emperor for having the courage to be honest and trustworthy. Some may wonder why the story had to be explained. During this story the main lesson was that “If you plant honesty, you will reap trust (The Seed).” In America today there are not many people who are honest, trustworthy or even courageous.

What is stopping one from being honest? Is a question that some may have, there are many different situations that can be explained that “The Seed” relates to when it comes to the real world. One situation one can relate the st...

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...nce of human relationships, integrity and competence (NASWCE). As a social worker, one will have to understand and stand by these principle’s whether it is in a difficult situation or not. The main key is to stand by what is right. For an example in the story “The Seed,” the young boy stood by his plant even though it did not seem right. Sometimes what one think is not going to work will be the main thing that will work as long as they have the courage to keep pushing and working hard at it. As stated, “if you plant hard work, you will reap success (The Seed).”

The seed could be anything during one’s life. The seed could be one’s goodness or forgiveness. The seed could be one’s perseverance and/or faith. As long as one plants these seeds with honesty, courage and trust throughout one’s life and career, they will reap the greatness of friends, miracles and victory.