Better to rectify our small mistake

A wealthy man was quite upset with his son bad habits thus he approached an old scholar who can make his son get away from it. The scholar took the youth for a stroll through a garden. Stopping there he asked the boy to pull out a tiny plant growing there. 

The youth held the plant between his thumb and forefinger and pulled it out. The old man then asked him to pull out a slightly bigger plant. The youth pulled hard and the plant came out, roots and all.

"Now pull out that one," said the old man pointing to a bush. The boy had to use all his strength to pull it out.

"Now take this one out," said the old man, indicating a guava tree. The youth grasped the trunk and tried to pull it out. But it would not budge.

"I – It's impossible," said the boy, panting with the effort.

"So it is with bad habits," said the sage. "When they are young it is easy to pull them out but when they take hold they cannot be uprooted."

This Lesson changed the old man changed the boy's life.

Rectifying our small mistakes helps us to become more wise and matured.Thus mistakes once realized must be corrected immediately or else it forms the strong  root, causes of all our problems.