When I began to venture into gardening, I went directly to the practical vegetable. I really didn’t like it, so after a few years I decided to change my herbal approach. Finally, and to my surprise, I changed my little gardening attacks to flowers.
This surprised me, because as a person who works in the west, I have always been a type of person “time is valuable.” If you will spend time in something (even if it’s just a little summer), you should give you the best explosion for your money. Vegetables and herbs join my general health and, therefore, are worthy of my time. So why did I feel attracted to the little practical flower?
In the striker of his book, awakening the purpose of his life, Eckhard Tolle speaks of the impractical flower as the first surprise of the earth. The visualization of a flower was probably the first time in all the existence that something was valued for more than survival.
This idea of changing values makes me smile. But it also bothers me. Assume that my hard work is not always worth it. That’s a little bit. It means that I can end up spending my valuable time in something that does not help me or the world in any practical way. That scares me, if I’m honest. My ego wants to swell and say, if my work has no value, then me either.
But there is the flower lesson. The only value that must be is the value of being a flower. The only thing we must be is simply here and simply human. We are valuable. Work is not required.
Again, my ego wants to swell and talk about loosening through life and responsibilities. And that seems very good and elegant, until we are in a situation where we work hard on something and it is not worth it. And then that same ego scolds us for having no value.
You are valued. Work is not required.
Until next time
Laura
