Saturday, October 18, 2008

Contentment, you and Adam

If you were given the whole world, except for one tree, would you be very happy? I would be. Many people had tried to own the world. Alexander spent his whole life trying to conquer the world and he did not succeed. Genghis Khan also tried his luck, but failed. The British created the world's largest empire to date, which, at its peak under King George V in 1922, covered only 25% (36.6 million square km²) of the world's land.

One man was given this opportunity to own the whole world, except for one tree. A brand new world. A paradise. He was given more than what the British, the Mongols, the Romans, the Greeks ever got and dreamed of. But he was not satisfied. He coveted the one tree. For attempting to conquer that one more tree, he lost his paradise. That man was Adam.

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