Musings
Gardening is a fantastic opportunity for both developing and expressing your personal style and taste. Personal style, mixed with time, is the recipe for an incredible expression of who you were, and now, who you have become.
Time gives us the opportunity to learn. As we learn, our gardening styles and tastes change. Much like a caterpillar as it 'morphs' into a butterfly. Think back upon the time when you first began gardening. Now compare it to your gardening today. Different isn't it?
In gardening, there are so many variations and possibilities that sometimes it is hard to choose what style you are. Often, we are a combination of several different styles. This is true in our personal lives too. When we are young we often experiment with a wide variety of styles and tastes. Then as a mature we begin to weed out the styles that we have determined are not part of who we are.
Gardening is an outward expression of who we are on the inside. In gardening we get to experience peace of mind, a sense of accomplishment, and practicality. Yet what would gardening be without the huge numbers of variations of plants, flowers, trees and vegetables? A garden would be boring with just one or two types of plants.
I relate this to people too. What would the world be like without the many varieties of people ? Wouldn't it be rather boring if we were all alike? Sure all people are humans, but there are so many possibilities and varieties. Sometimes I will meet a person who is a 'take charge - in control' type personality that it needs very little care and nurturing.
It's easy to take this type of person for granted, just as we take for granted that huge oak trees and those palm trees. Yet on the opposite end of the spectrum, we have those people who are very needy. Some of us have the compassion to love these people, while others of us have no patience with this type personality. Yet just as we would care for and nurture the little plant that is not doing well, we should also be nurturing this little needy person.
If we tended to people as we do our plants, our world would be a much happier place.
Time gives us the opportunity to learn. As we learn, our gardening styles and tastes change. Much like a caterpillar as it 'morphs' into a butterfly. Think back upon the time when you first began gardening. Now compare it to your gardening today. Different isn't it?
In gardening, there are so many variations and possibilities that sometimes it is hard to choose what style you are. Often, we are a combination of several different styles. This is true in our personal lives too. When we are young we often experiment with a wide variety of styles and tastes. Then as a mature we begin to weed out the styles that we have determined are not part of who we are.
Gardening is an outward expression of who we are on the inside. In gardening we get to experience peace of mind, a sense of accomplishment, and practicality. Yet what would gardening be without the huge numbers of variations of plants, flowers, trees and vegetables? A garden would be boring with just one or two types of plants.
I relate this to people too. What would the world be like without the many varieties of people ? Wouldn't it be rather boring if we were all alike? Sure all people are humans, but there are so many possibilities and varieties. Sometimes I will meet a person who is a 'take charge - in control' type personality that it needs very little care and nurturing.
It's easy to take this type of person for granted, just as we take for granted that huge oak trees and those palm trees. Yet on the opposite end of the spectrum, we have those people who are very needy. Some of us have the compassion to love these people, while others of us have no patience with this type personality. Yet just as we would care for and nurture the little plant that is not doing well, we should also be nurturing this little needy person.
If we tended to people as we do our plants, our world would be a much happier place.
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