Dear reader
Wow. You look ravishing today; I want to plant you in a field :)
Recently I have been working on the garden at the back of my house. I usually start by mowing the lawn, raking the grass, trimming the beds and then pulling out the weeds. When we first arrived to the house the previous tenants had let it go wild. The grass was knee high, the weeds were a semi-jungle, the trees overgrown. Bit by bit we restored it to its former glory, and call this strange, but seeing the results made me satisfied This as usual, had me thinking.
I believe that the outer world represents the inner world. If you visited a house and its garden was blooming, its lawns mowed, and its grass green and lively, you would assume that the house owners were living well; that their life was together. Just as when you are stressed out, or you have exams, or a busy schedule, your house will get messy very quickly. The magic happens when you can maintain clean and ordered surroundings while living in a situation of chaos. If you can be the rock in the stream, you can manage difficulties a lot easier and prevent them from becoming worse.
Being a virgo apparently helps with being tidy. I have always operated better when my surroundings are clean: it gives me clarity of thought and peace of mind. Instead of avoiding the tasks that needed to be done, I embrace them. Work, as I have previously blogged, is a teacher. A teacher whose best interests is you. The sweat that you pour in the garden is the water that brings forth fruit and flowers. The gardener is a great analogy not just for our working lives, but for the journey of life itself.
There are some people in the world that tell me, "why should I give to charities, if there will always be more people to feed?". These are probably the people who turn a blind eye to the man on the streets because they assume he will spend his money on alcohol and drugs. Or people in relationships who do not try to change their partner because they believe they will never change. The reason why we must try, whether we like it or not, is because if we do nothing, things will always get worse. In the absence of good, evil flourishes. This is all it takes.
Everything in the world tends towards destruction. Dust grows, dirt builds up, weeds overgrow and we too move towards that day of passing. Even gravity demands that we just let things be. Yet, it is the times when we show resistance; the times when we give ourselves to the cause; the time when we feel the burn, that we work hard, that we say "no" to what is easy; that we thrive and grow. The garden taught me that evil is easy. Giving into our primal desires is easy. Rather, it is putting in the hours that is hard. Tending the gardens of our lives requires us to give ourselves to the moment. Letting the world drift by will let those things wrong with ourselves and the world, run rampant. Instead we should focus on the flowers; those that are from the heart. Work on them, and everything follows.
The obstacles to the flowers are the weeds. These are the obstacles in your life. Many things in our society grab the weed by the head, hoping that it won't come back. In the medical world they throw pills at disease without questioning what causes it. Relationships have stormy arguments without sitting down to discuss why. People are doing jobs everyday that they hate, stressing out unnecessarily without questioning why they can't change their lifestyle. People call a murderer evil without understanding how that person got to that state of mind to begin with. The weeds go deep, and so there is always another story. Everyone chooses the easy option because they don't want to get their hands dirty. They don't want to see the roots, because they are afraid. Yet we must always go to the roots of the problem to alleviate it. We must always evaluate, and question if things are not going our way. Most importantly, we have grab that weed killer, whatever or whoever that is in our life, and take action to restore things to their natural way. Like the garden, flowers are meant to bloom, and we, as people, are meant to be happy. Doing the same things over and over gain, and expecting different results is the very definition of insanity.
Take it easy, and have a great weekend :)
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