Monkey and The Gator

Ran across this and thought it was really cute and made a good  point


A monkey and alligator came across a banana tree lush with ripe fruit. Banana trees were rare in that particular swamp, so they soon became engrossed in an argument to who the banana tree should belong to. After much debate, they agreed that they would split the tree and each take a half. The monkey who knew much more about banana trees coyly asked the alligator which half he wanted.
The alligator replied, “I will take the top half.”
The monkey said in fake angst, “That is not fair! The top half has all the fruit. I will be left with a no good stump.”
The alligator countered thinking he had fooled the monkey, “You agreed we would split it.”
The monkey relented, “Fine, I will take this worthless stump.”
Both took their halves back to their homes and planted them. The alligator’s plant to his great anguish quickly turned brown and died. The monkey’s stump with the roots, split off and produced another green lush plant with an even larger bunch of bananas than the original.

Moral of the story: In the long term, sometimes what is brown and dirty is better than what is green and lush.