*: #8 Choose the best

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GOOD SEEDS (دانه)

Do you know why we have wonderful fruits and vegetables to eat today? It required (نیاز داشتن) many years of patient (صبور) work.
Farming (کشاورزی) began 12,000 (twelve thousand) years ago. Each year, farmers (کشاورز) collected (جمع آوری) seeds from their fruits and vegetables to plant (کاشتن) the next year. But they took seeds only from the best and biggest fruits and vegetables. Farmers did not plant seeds from fruits or vegetables that were small or not tasty (لذیذ). Each year, their fruits and vegetables became (شدن) bigger and more tasty.

Photo: Horticulturalist RJ

For example. Long ago, eggplants (بادمجان) looked like small white eggs. Every year, farmers chose (choose: انتخاب کنید) seeds from the best plants to grow the next year (سال آینده). After many, many years eggplants changed.

Today eggplants are big and purple, and very delicious. Actually, many fruits and vegetables have changed: tomatoes are big now and very red. Bananas are big now and bright yellow.

This story, of course, is not just about fruits and vegetables. It is also about the thoughts (فکر) and ideas we choose each day. When we choose the best ideas

our lives get better, even if it takes a long time.