The dragonfly

Once there was a dragonfly for whom the world was greener than green and the sky bluer than blue
The dragonfly longed to know which weighed heavier, a human tear or a thousand prayers.
So it fashioned a small balance from a reed, and collected on one side a thousand prayers, and gathered to the other a human tear, and discovered
the tear weighed heaviest.
The reed rebuked him:
Do not exhaust yourself, little fellow!
You cannot change the world!
‘You are right’, said the dragonfly
‘You cannot change the world.
Even a dragonfly knows
The world can only be changed
By those who believe they can.’