Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree, and they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, Youre crooked. Youve always been crooked and youll continue to be crooked.
But look at me! Look at me! said the straight tree. Im tall, and Im straight.
And one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, Cut all the straight trees!
And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong, and growing strange.