Room To Grow
I’ve been busy buying new containers and re-potting my plants. The two bonsai on the right look lovely (though the blue fir furthest right could do with a saucer that fits better), and the aloe vera looks great in its new red container, look at the size of it: a baby no more!
For all of us, if we want to grow bigger, there comes a point where we must be planted into bigger containers. In practice, this means putting ourselves into more challenging situations: going for that promotion, aiming higher, overcoming a fear, asking that pretty girl out on a date, booking a bigger location to play a gig. It is by doing bigger things that we grow bigger. And while we’re at it, if we’re putting ourselves in bigger containers, let’s also make them beautiful. Presentation is key for attractiveness, and attractiveness is what makes our dreams come true and brings the best life has to offer right to us, so that we may enjoy the splendour of our earthly existence. What could be better than that?
May 4th, 2007 at 9:21 am
[...] It has been three quarters of a year since I last spoke of growth as a matter of what size a container you are in (see: Room To Grow). This particular theme has returned to me, as I continue on the Great Spiral of Life. Anyone experienced in plant growing will understand that a time will come when we must put our plants into a bigger container if they are to grow any further. So it is with us. If we are to grow as people, we must expand our views of who we are. Thinking in the same ways, thinking of ourselves in the same old small ways, will mean that we limit our own growth. So, we must learn to think of ourselves in larger terms, to shapeshift, become more than we think we are. [...]