The Leaky Bucket

My friend forwarded this to me in an email...

There was once a man who had two buckets, which he used to carry water from a well to his house. One of the buckets had a crack in it and the other didn't. Each day, the one with the crack would leak almost half its water along the way.

After some time, the imperfect container said to the man "I apologize for leaking half of your water every day". The man said "I knew that so I planted flower seeds along the way. It is the water that was leaking from you that has been supplying these flowers with water and helping them grow every day."