For a long time in an Italian city they built a beautiful tower, which everyone who passed by it admired and at a short distance from the road. In a neighboring city they built many towers in beauty. Everyone knew the two towers well, but the inhabitants of the second city who were envious and hateful of the first, wanted to destroy the neighboring tower so that their tower would be the most beautiful.
In a dark night they came to the tower, with ladders and tools, and began to destroy its foundation with greed. In the morning of the next day, the tower was leaning a little, but no one noticed that. And the same thing happened in the following days, until a small girl came passing by the tower and said: “I think the tower will fall.”
Everyone was looking around and remained trying to verify if she was correct, and the news began to spread throughout the city as they tried to find solutions to support the tower. But the days passed and it didn’t appear that anything good had happened. The situation remained thus until a day came when the small girl herself was walking in it again, and she leaned her head against the side of the tower for rest. She felt that the tower was shaking a little and making a sad and weak sound. When she moved her head, the movement and the noise stopped.
And when she returned another time and did the same as she did in the previous time, the same thing happened. She remained some time doing that until she was completely sure of what she had discovered: “The tower was weak and not solid with life, so the girl ran to get some of the flowers and plants, and planted them around the tower. Until if the tower fell after that, it would remain fragrant with those plants that it loved, and with this method the girl was able to make sure that the tower did not fall. But she remained sad at it a little, and in truth it was making its fall more famously.
And this taught a wonderful lesson to the people of the city. So they felt envy and tried to keep the first tower, for their second. But they could not do that, for the tower had ended to collapse, and they left the city not only without a tower but also without a thing upon which the city could depend.
The story is translated from: The Two Tower