In a typical house’s backyard, there were hundreds of roses. The owner’s intention, is to see the flower blossoms every month. The owner’s friend knew that he likes roses, so he brought him some special ones. Those new roses bloom into a different colour, giving a sudden focus among other roses in the backyard. To maintain the flowers, the owner spent lots of his time taking care of them.

On one night, the owner had a dream. In that dream while he was cutting the roses’ thorns, he saw tonnes of flowers walking into his backyard. It was as though all the flowers in the world had visited his backyard at the same time. Being astonished, he stood up and stared at all the flowers.

The first flower that spoke to him was a peony. It said “I wouldn’t have visited such a dirty place on other days. But since my sisters have asked, so I came.”

After that, a water lily said “When I woke up in the lake nearby, I could hear the sisters calling so I followed them here.”

Even the morning glory began to speak now. “Don’t we look stunning?”

A furious pomegranate then yelled “There are emotions in us.”

A Prynne added on “You must learn to experience the beauty of character.”

Then followed by a cactus “Those who favoured the tamed ones are weak. And I happen to possess a strong spirit.”

Jasmine said “I brought faith.”

Orchid said “I’d choose friendship.”

After all the flowers have spoken their minds, they concluded “Being understood is a kind of happiness.”

Finally, the roses began to voice out this time. “We’re lonely. We’d be happier if we could be together with our sisters.”

Then they all commented “It’s a great honour to be cherished. But we’ve been long forgotten, left behind numerous complaints.” As they finished their words, they vanished into thin air.

After he woke up from the dream, he felt uncomfortable and paid a visit to his backyard. He thought to himself “Flowers are creatures with spirit, it’s their right to blossom. I had always favoured roses. Perhaps I’ve been really unfair to the other flowers. When there is a variety, we’re able of spotting the good ones out of bad, big ones out of small… From now on, my backyard shall be the garden of all flowers! I must allow all sort of flowers to bloom at their respective seasons.”


Postscript:

Flowers, are very often admired by most. Among all the flowers, each of them would look distinctively, having their very own mission.

But do we limit our perspective towards flowers on their appearance? Are we only appreciative when the flowers finally begin to blossom?

Roses will blossom only in a certain period, which explained their mission within that particular timeframe. As they blossom, the people would gather round and glare at their beauty. By then, people would neglect the little flowers beside these roses. Or have we ever paid attention to such minimal object?

Have you realized that the way we see flowers is just like how we perceive people?

When a person is extraordinarily clever, talkative, gorgeous, or tall, we’ll put them in our mind. We could hardly spot a faulty incident on them. But when someone who’s not fond of public speaking or managing tasks, we’d begin to be mad towards them. Have we lost the heart to understand people?

Junior Divisions are like the flowers in the story. Some of them are polite and obedient which we’d like to be with. On the other hand, we hardly try and understand those who are quiet or hyper active. In the dialogue of the flowers, we’ve known what’s on the flowers’ minds. Just like what had been mentioned by the cactus “Those who favoured the tamed ones are weak, but I have a strong spirit.”

Whenever Ikeda Sensei encountered a child, he’d treat them with a heart thinking of ‘how to give them happiness’. Sensei would sincerely have a dialogue with them. He’d pay great attention to the children. Future Division is our future. Every child has a possibility of becoming the next most influencing icon in the society. Why don’t we give the fullest effort to understand the heart of each and every one of them?

As JD PICs, our origin is to nurture the Junior Division, giving them happiness. Have you remembered your origin? Please do not forget that we are representing our mentor, Ikeda Sensei to take care of every one of them. Our mentor treated them sincerely, hence he’d hope that we do the same.

Being understood is a kind of happiness. Let’s remind ourselves to have a mission of ‘giving happiness to every Junior Division’, to care about them attentively! Go ahead and feel why would our mentor pay so much attention on the children. You must believe that you’re able of opening both yours and the Junior Division’s heart. Let’s strive together!

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