A wealthy man requested an old teacher to wean his son away from his bad habits. The teacher took the boy for a stroll in a garden. Stopping suddenly, he asked the boy to pull out a tiny plant growing there. The boy held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out. “Now pull out that one,” said the teacher, pointing to a bush. The boy had to use all his strength to pull it out. “Now take this one out,” said the teacher, showing a pear tree. The boy grasped the trunk and tried to pull it out. However, it would not budge. “It’s impossible,” said the boy. “So it is with bad habits,” said the teacher. “When the plants are young, it is easy to pull them out but when they grow big, they cannot be uprooted.” This changed the boy’s life forever. He got rid of his bad habits.
Drop Bad Habits
