With all the six trees of Rambutan giving us fruit this year, this variation in the appearance of fruits and flavour fascinate us. Each tree with its distinct type of fruit in colour, size and flavour gives an impression of what is beyond the obvious.
During the nine months when the trees are only a thick foliage, they look similar in every way. At the time of fruiting they bring out their true nature!
Each tree brings out its fruit in its season!
I came across a conversation that is a serious enquiry in an institution about how to foster community life in the work place and residential settings!
The dissimilarities between people seem to cause a concern as to whether it would be possible to be cohesive and integrated!
The dissimilarities can only add to the richness to the social flavour in a community!
What is important is to foster the vision of 'fruit bearing', which is the self giving character of each tree !
If people turn inward and be carried away by an attitude of self promotion, then the community formation is at stake!
When there is giving and receiving, each person feels his or her place and feels connected widely!
It is not by prescribing how every person ought to be, we foster relational living, but by fostering a consciousness of the neighbour who too ought to benefit from one's being and presence!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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