In the spring the farmer was planting corn and came across the first tender shoots. He rolled over them with his team. "This no-good weed," he muttered, "takes the soil away from good harvests. "Then he continued to plant corn seeds.
The sunflower seed survived and continued to grow. One day the farmer's son was playing in the field and came to the young plant. He said: "What is this stupid weed are you doing here?" He hit it with a stick and tore three leaves. But the sunflower grow.
One day, a butterfly was flying around in the cornfield and found the young plant. Sunflower said the butterfly, "Why am I here? Everybody tells me no good and keeps trying to kill me. If I'm not good, why was I ever born?"
The butterfly floated gently on the tender leaves and said: "You're a sunflower. You are in a cornfield. The people here think you are not good, because they grow corn, and they think you're a weed. But a hundred meters from Here, along the way, there are hundreds of sunflowers. they line the road and the drivers think they are very beautiful. "
Sunflower asked: "Why am I here, where nobody wants me? Did other sunflowers hate me?" The butterfly's wings swept around and said, "You're lucky to be here. The other sunflowers get picked and sold as food. Here you could grow up. Count your blessings."
And the sunflower grew as tall as the corn. When the farmer and his son saw him again, they marveled at. "It has a sturdy plant," said the farmer, "this long to have grown around here. We are not going to touch." And they left it alone.
When August came, the sunflower was in full bloom and after the sun as it rose in the morning and went at night. A butterfly came back and said, "See? Now you're all grown. Would you now like yourself?" "I do not know," said the sunflower. "You're beautiful," said the butterfly to the sunflower. "You're beautiful," said the sunflower to the butterfly. And the butterfly pollinated sunflower.
One day the farmer's wife and daughter were in the field. The girl said, "Look, it's a sunflower!" "Yes, dear," her mother said, "It is a sunflower. And it grew up in a corn field, even though your father tried to kill all the weeds. It should be a very special sunflower to be." "Let's pick for good luck," insisted the girl. "No, honey," her mother said, "it must have been blessed to survive what it did. Kiss leaves for his happiness and then leave it alone."
The girl kissed the sunflower and then went home. The next morning the sunflower said the butterfly, "I do not get picked. I can not survive as long as far away from home, that I allow myself to be slain." The butterfly said to the sunflower, "Everyone dies, but if your heart free from the darkness you can live on in another form." "I need the farmer to repay the family for having raised me," said the sunflowers, "and then I want to help other plants." So the butterfly said, "OK, leave them your seeds and your petals while you let your soul fly away with me."
The next night, while the mother was sleeping, the girl went into the field and picked the sunflower. They put it in a vase. By next morning her mother found the sunflower in the room of the girl, she got angry. She said: "This plant will survive storms, winter and your father's plow, and kill you. Are there not enough sunflowers along the road that you had something so precious to kill?"
The girl cried and was scared. She told her mother: "I will be forgiven, right? I'm a good girl, right?" The mother looked at her and said: "You must ask for forgiveness, and you have to pray."
The girl came to the sunflower and said, "I'm sorry." She prayed that the sunflower life.
The next morning the farmer saw the sunflower in the room of his daughter and said: "It is no coincidence that this plant alive while we try to kill all weeds Maybe. It tries to tell us something. I'll have a lot to build next the maize fields where we are raising sunflowers. "While he cracked the plant, he got rid of the seeds and put them in a bag to the next spring to grow.
When he was picking out the seeds of the sunflower was a beautiful butterfly. She flew away and found her friend. And they began to spread knowledge and blessings to all the flowers that lived in the surrounding fields.
