{"id":20642,"date":"2015-06-23T00:39:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=20642"},"modified":"2015-06-23T00:39:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:39:48","slug":"the-man-who-planted-20000-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=20642","title":{"rendered":"The man who planted 20000 trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trees-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20643\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/trees-002-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>All the stories published under \u2018Impact Journalism Day\u2019 in the *Straits Times are \u00a0inspiring, but the most impactful one for me is \u201cThe man who planted 20 000 trees.\u201d I thought this is such a meaningful and good life and wondered how one can live a meaningful life, like Kartik\u2019s , an ex-barber who has planted 20 000 trees and now at 75 years old is still planting trees.<\/p>\n<p>From the story I distilled these pre-requisites:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Serving others is the mission of life. \u00a0The ex-barber \u00a0would save some money from his earnings to buy the seedlings to plant his trees. He has never collected payment from anyone for his work.<\/li>\n<li>Philosophical belief learnt from \u00a0his father who told him: \u201c\u2026If you just plant a tree, that will bring you far more blessings than any pilgrimage\u2026\u201d To me this is equivalent to \u201cfaith with work\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In a materialistic world where consumers are kings, it is not easy to not work for money, but on the road less taken, where money is <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">secondary<\/span>, where serving others is <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">priority<\/span>, life can be very meaningful and fulfilling.<\/p>\n<p>*ST Sat 20 June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the stories published under \u2018Impact Journalism Day\u2019 in the *Straits Times are \u00a0inspiring, but the most impactful one for me is \u201cThe man who planted 20 000 trees.\u201d I thought this is such a meaningful and good life and wondered how one can live a meaningful life, like Kartik\u2019s , an ex-barber who has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=20642\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The man who planted 20000 trees&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,40],"tags":[363],"class_list":["post-20642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-reflections","tag-good-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20644,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20642\/revisions\/20644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}