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My Storage Box Given By My Granny 

Once Upon a time, there was a boy who live near the farm, he is rude, hard headed, very lazy, irritable , & lastly disrespectful to his grand parents. When he was 5 years old when his parents were gone and he was left to his grandmother. His grandmother has a wide lot at the farm to put on some vegetables as well as other fruit bearing trees. After 2 years the boy needs to get up every morning to cook breakfast for his grandmother but sometimes he can't because he was too young to cook at 7 years old. After several years had passed, his grandmother was old enough to handle the farm and every time she had a harvest she gives it to her other relatives as well as other farmers who did the planting. She teaches other neighbor to plant the seeds properly, and said that this will be your bread & butter when you have no work and you will not worry what to feed for your family when they feel hungry.

The boy is already 10 and can handle already the kitchen thing, he knows how to do the household chores but yet he was very lazy to do those because he feel inferior when he do those household thing helping his grandmother. She is very disrespectful, she said to her granny, hey what can you give to me when you left me here on earth, a very disrespectful answer by a grand children. The grandmother said; the only thing I can give you is a storage box full of knowledge & wisdom. I'll give you something especial that will make you more stronger, give you life until age of 60-100 or so. 

The grandchild ask; what is it grandma? 

It is a surprise that you can only be seen when I am already dead. So you must know how to read and understand so you will appreciate things beyond a piece of a seed or a paper itselfs. Ok, whatever ok i'll got to go with my friend, but i'll be right back before dinner. I'll just play on the neighboring street with my friends far from this ugly farm. I don't like to feel itchy by these fur of unhusked rice. 

Ok, be right back before 5pm, the grandma said to her grandchild. While the boy was away, the grandmother had her mild stroke, she can't speak and even say something to her grandchild who went home late in the evening 30 minutes past of 10 in the evening. Granny, what's wrong? I'm sorry, I came home late because we had a good computer games played in the neighborhood, then we watched film after. Have you eaten your dinner? The grandmother, was crying in tears wherein she wants to speak but she can't.

Grandma, hey what's going on, i'll cook now. You mean you are still hungry not eating?Why you can't talk. Hey help my grandma needs an emergency. Help! help! 

A neighborhood came in and asks, what happen? Ok I'll call the emergency ambulance to pick up your mom. I went home late , I think granny haven't eaten yet. I am worried she will die.

Weeeew,weeeew,weeew the emergency came and pick up his grandma.

While they were in the hospital, a doctor ask who is the relatives of the patient. The ten year old boy came and said I am doctor. Do you know how to read these Rx I'll be giving to the patient for you to buy? The boy said yes , my grandma always encourage me to learn basic reading, counting , and other things inside the house. Ok get this and buy those medicines at the pharmacy nearby the hospital, the doctor said to the boy. 

Oh glad my grandma told me how to read. After few days in the hospital the doctor said , your grandma is ok but do not make anything that will let her feel so much grudges, instead comfort her & follow her. 

While they were at home, the grandma was trying to pick up his book and write some letters inside the box, it has an instructions and signature. I am hunggrrrrrrrrrry hey... get up. 

The little boy said ok , i'll cook, give medicine, and also do chores but he always complains for he is only alone. Until one day he went back again to his past routine. He left his grandma and then his grandma suddenly fall and died. At the end of day while he was trying to open up the door he saw his grandma holding a piece of paper saying this is my one and only secret of success in the farm. 

While he was crying and opening the heritage storage box of his grandma, he saw a letter with so many instructions. Step by steps to follow, how to plants her golden seeds that will flourish like a magic and grows in the farm abundantly. The boy said, grandma I don't know much in household chores not even know how to cook my favorite food. How to manage people and the farm.This 10-20 pieces of seeds won't let me survive in this world, with just a piece of a workbook full of recipes and writings of our culture and traditions as well as your secrets. If this is a formula I can't do this reading everyday. The months had passed few sacks of rice, & few vegetables were left and the people who rely on his grandma asks him. Is "Nanay Miling" your grandmother, left you a secret to plant the vegetables, other secrets on how to cook it perfectly and tips on how survive in this dying farm? The little boy said, yes I know how to read and comprehend so I think I can follow. But how can I plant a big 10 hectare of farm with just 10 seeds? The neighbor said, when we were working at the farm, "Nanay Miling" your grandma used only 3-5 pieces of those and pray that those seeds will grow. After just 1 month those 5 seeds were having many seeds that we get some to plant other portions but she asks again another farmer to help each other so the plants will flourish.

The golden seed has a magic filled with love, care and of course wisdom. The more we care to the vegetables and we showed that we have teamwork the plants grow rapidly, and a magic of golden seed filled the whole farm lot turns into a beautiful garden that gave us foods, came from our effort, teamwork , and the magic words of Nanay Milling. Then when the harvest time came in, we shared a portion to the poor people in the neighboring town that's why "Nanay Miling " never run out of harvest & stocks. God provides her like a miracle.

Ok let us start doing the same thing, I'll follow her steps by steps procedure in the heritage storage box she left me and let us start the planting anytime. After 3 months the 10 hectares were filled by the same harvest and give it equally to the labor who made it possible. Portion of some were given to the poor as well as the same relatives. The little boy is not only rich by the farm, but by knowledge, wisdom and the willpower to survive and to mingle with other people and see them equally. he sold those harvested vegetables and rice at the merchants and now everytime he harvest he kept some small seeds to plant on the same storage box. Thinking he will do the same thing to his descendants.