One day a man was walking in the woods near his home. As he was walking he bent down and picked up two acorns lying in the path. When he got home he examined the two acorns. He found the one to be perfect, beautifully shaped and without blemish. The other was a bit deformed andhad been cracked, possibly by someone standing on it as it lay in the path. He decided to keep the "perfect" acorn, and put it in his display cabinet. The other one, the deformed cracked one, he threw out into the garden. Now many years later that man died. As his children were sorting out his things they found the "perfect" acorn that he had, all those years ago, placed in his display cabinet. As they picked it up it crumbled to dust. Not being used, the potential within it had died. Later the children had tea in the garden under the shade of a magnificent oak tree. The same tree where they had so much fun while growing up. The little deformed, cracked acorn that the man had thrown out into the garden, had done what it was designed to do. It had grown to into an oak tree.