Accountability

Once upon a time, a man named Greenfingers, was employed by a nursery owner to look after and help his orchids grow and bloom.

When Greenfingers first reported for work, he realised that the few pots of orchids were not given enough care for the past year or so, and were very much frail and almost drying out. He found out that he had a lot of work to do to re-pot the orchids and give them the right amount of sunlight. But Greenfingers was determined to give his all to ensure that the orchids under his care were well taken care of and he hoped that they would blossom into beautiful flowers.

And so he slogged for a good year... but at the same time, the nursery owner added new species and introduced new technologies with the hope of making the nursery become the most productive and most beautiful nursery in the region...

But with the added demands on the need to care for more species, and to cope with learning the newer ways of growing plants and flowers, all the other helpers employed by the nursery owner found that they had more and more tasks and plots of plants and flowers to tend over.

There's only so much they could do... weeds started to grow at corners over-looked... time were taken away from these helpers in coping with new changes...

By the end of the year, Greenfingers realised that despite his orchids which he had diligently tend over had blossomed nicely and beautifully, he couldn't say the same about all the other plants and flowers in the nursery... One look across the entire nursery, the sight was kind of messy and disorganised...

So Greenfingers began to wonder if he should be happy that his orchids finally managed to grow beautifully, or be disappointed that the nursery as a whole has not been well tended over...

Greenfingers also began to reflect in what other ways he could have helped get the whole nursery back in order again...