May i share this wonderful metaphor i came across when watched "OITNB" Season 4. As many of you are aware i am an avid gardener. I find happiness in my garden. Anyways, i hope you like the piece as much as i do...
The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity.
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.
The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.
It’s part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.
It’s a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.
It’s about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.
And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.
Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.
And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.
And then everything dies anyway, right?
But you just keep doing it.
I am more myself in my garden than anywhere else on earth. My garden brings me the type of joy no $$ can buy.....
I dream, my ultimate dream, is one day owning a botanical garden, free of charge, everyone are welcome to spend time there, amongst flowers and tress and butterflies and bird houses and whimsical wind chimes and tranquility. You'll find me at a quaint little cafe right in the middle of the garden, my cafe is filled with my baked goods (cake, pie, cookies, coffee, smoothie, and on and on and on) and laughters...and yup wonderful conversations amongst friends.
This is my dream.