Like weights

Like the parable of the talents (the parable of the talents) in the Holy Bible, in a story that states that a merchant before traveling distributed his wealth consisting of eight talents of silver to his three servants, as follows: for the first five, for the second two, and for the third one talent. As for the first two servants, they worked hard, traded, and doubled their talents, and the third buried it in the ground. When the master returned from his journey to settle accounts with his servants, he saw that the first two had doubled their talents and proved their honesty, so he said to each of them: "Well done, good and faithful servant!" As for the third, he was described as wicked and lazy, and he was punished by taking his talent and giving it to the one who had ten talents, "For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away." Talents are the gifts that God has bestowed upon humans, such as health, intelligence, wealth, and knowledge. And man will be held accountable for his talents on the Day of Judgment because he is a trustee over them, and everything he has of good is from God. It is man's duty to produce, increase, and fill the earth. Because laziness is the door to destruction. This story, published in 1998, continues the story of Loren Olamina, who tries to live in America under a totalitarian regime in the 1930s. Olamina realizes that the seed of the earth is the only solution to reform the world. Returning to the parable of the talents, Loren Olamina's talent is the seed of the earth, and the core of the story is the necessary change, which instead of fearing and fighting it, we should open up to it and seize it, so that we can grow like seeds. The author is Octavia Butler, published by Takin.