One beautiful spring day a red rose blossomed in a forest. Many trees and plants also grew there. As the rose looked around, a pine tree nearby said, "what a beautiful flower, I wish I was that lovely." Another tree replied, "dear pine, don't be sad, we can't have everything."
The rose turned its head and remarked, "it seems that I am the most beautiful plant in this forest." A sunflower raised its yellow head and asked, "why do you say that? There are many beautiful plants in this forest. You are just one of them." Red rose replied, "I see everyone looking at me and admiring me."
Then the rose looked at a cactus and said, "look at that ugly plant full of thorns!"
Pine tree said, "red rose, what kind of talk is this? Who can say what beauty is? You also have many thorns.
The proud red rose looked angrily and said, "I thought you had good taste, but you don't actually know what beauty is at all. You can't compare my thorns to that cactus one"
What a proud flower, thought another trees.
The rose tried to move its roots away from the cactus, but it couldn't move. As days passed, the red rose looked at the cactus and saying insulting things, "this plant is useless, how sorry I am to be his neighbor"
The cactus never got upset and he even tried to advise the rose, "God didn't create any form of life without a purpose."
Spring passed, the weather became very warm and life became difficult in the forest, as the plants and animals needed water but no rain fell. The red rose began wilt.
One day, the rose saw sparrows stick their beaks into the cactus and then fly away, refreshed. This was puzzling, and the rose asked the pine tree, what the birds were doing. The pine tree explained, "the birds got water from the cactus".
"Doesn't it hurt when they make holes?" asked the rose.
"Yes, but the cactus doesn't like to see the birds suffer," replied the pine.
The red rose opened its eyes in wonder and said, "the cactus has water."
"Yes, you can also drink from it. The sparrow can bring water to you if you ask cactus for help", answered the pine tree.
The red rose felt too ashamed of its past word and behavior to ask for water from the cactus, but the rose finally did ask the cactus for help. The cactus kindly agreed and the birds filled their beaks with water and watered the rose's roots. Thus, the rose learned a lesson and never judge anyone by their appearance again.
Therefore, in order to judge person exactly, it's really important for us to spent a longer time in getting along with him or her, so that we can have a deep knowledge about his/her personality. One more thing, judging other by their external appearance also mean that you lack respect and admiration for them. Furthermore, external appearance differs from one to another, so we can't set it as a main factor to draw a conclusion about a person. For example, there're many kinds of skin color in this world and if we judge people through these criteria, it'll easily cause international racism and conflicts, more seriously, it can lead to a war.
