Are You
Growing?
Imagine the day. It is a beautiful early morning,
late spring early summer. With a clear blue sky and
a warming sun you decide to take a walk in the
garden. While walking you enjoy the variety of
colours in the flowers. Relish the vivid green that
leaves have at this time of the year. Birds dart
between the trees as others sing. As you slowly walk
around the garden enjoy the rays of the sun, the
peace and tranquility that can only come in the
early morning before the rest of the world wakes up.
On your steady stroll around the garden you
eventually arrive at a rose garden and stop to
admire a wonderful red rose. The flowers are at the
stage where they are full of promise, open but not
fully open. Bending down you able to smell the
beautiful sent that the flowers give off. Using the
pair of secateurs that you always carry while
walking in the garden at this time of day you cut
the flower and stand up to admire it.
One of the interesting things about
life is what happened to that flower the moment that
you cut its stem. The rose began to die. This is a
vivid example of how everything in nature is either
growing or dying. There is no prolonged period where
things are stable, they are either growing or dying.
Sometimes death comes quickly and sometimes it is a
long slow process.
People are the same. Either we are
growing; developing, learning something new,
becoming a better person than we were yesterday, or
we are slowly dying. Yes I know that at some point
all of our physical bodies will give out and we may
as well accept the inevitable. But if we are not
growing, developing, learning something new,
becoming a better person than we were yesterday then
we have already lost the true meaning of life and
are waiting for our bodies to give out.
Unfortunately for the rose, once you
have cut its stem there was no way back. The good
thing from our point of view is that we can all
decide to live life any time we wish. We can all
decide to join a class and learn something new. Read
a non-fiction book, go to a different restaurant,
watch a play instead of the TV, open up our lives
and start to live.
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