After I first began dabbling in gardening, I went straight for the sensible vegetable. I didn’t actually prefer it, so after just a few years I made a decision to modify my focus to herbs. Ultimately, and to my shock, I shifted my little gardening dabbles to flowers.
This shocked me, as a result of as a hard-working midwesterner I’ve all the time been a “time is effective” form of individual. If you will spend time on one thing (even when it’s just a few summer time dabbling), it ought to provide the finest bang to your buck. Greens and herbs add to my general well being, and are due to this fact worthy of my time. So why was I drawn to the impractical flower?
Within the ahead of his e-book, Awakening to Your Life’s Function, Eckhard Tolle speaks of the impractical flower as earth’s first shock. The viewing of a flower was in all probability the very first time in all of existence that one thing was valued for one thing aside from survival.
This concept of shifting values makes me smile. But it surely additionally makes me uncomfortable. It hints that my exhausting work received’t all the time repay. That stings a bit. It implies that I could find yourself spending my useful time on one thing that doesn’t assist me or the world in any sensible approach. That scares me, if I’m sincere. My ego desires to puff up and say, If my work has no worth then neither do I.
However therein lies the lesson of the flower. The one worth it must be, is the worth of being a flower. The one factor we have to be is solely right here and easily human. We simply are useful. No work required.
Once more, my ego desires to puff up and converse of slacking via life and tasks. And that appears all high quality and dandy, till we discover ourselves in a scenario the place we work exhausting on one thing and it doesn’t repay. After which that very same ego berates us for being nugatory.
You might be valued. No work required.
Till subsequent time,
Laura
Discussion about this post