I thought this was really good.

"A king visited its garden and discovered that its trees, shrubs and flowers were dying. The oak told him that it was dying because it could not be as tall as the pine. When the king searched for the pine, he found it fallen because it could not produce grapes like the grapevine.



The grapevine died because it could not bloom like the rose. The rose was unhappy for not being strong and solid as the oak. Then the king found a carnation blooming and fresher than ever.



The king asked to it : How is that you grow so healthful in the middle of this shady and sad garden ? The flower answered: I do not know. Perhaps it is because I always supposed that when you planted me, you wanted carnations. If you had wanted me to be an oak, you would have planted me as such. When I realized that, I told to myself: I will try to be a carnation the best way I can, and here I am, I am the most beautiful carnation in your garden."



We are this that we are.



We live fading in our own dissatisfactions, in our absurd comparisons with the others: “if I were?““if I had?" Conjugating the future which is uncertain instead of the present which is here and now, not wanting to see that the happiness is a subjective state, made by choice.



We can choose today to be happy with who we are and what we have,or to live bitter for what we do not have or cannot be.



We will only be able to bloom the day that we accept that we are what we are, that we are unique, and that nobody else can do what we came to do. The Happiness is an attitude…. not a destiny!