Yesterday evening I was walking along the road leading to my hostel where there are vegetations, in search of some vegetables to cook for dinner. I was searching for water leaves a commonly grown vegetable in the west region of Africa.
If we take a careful look at how plants grows, we would find out that good plant don’t just grow anywhere. Good plants are most of the time nursed from nursery beds and after some time transplanted to a permanent place where it would live the remaining of its good life.
The permanent place of the plant is monitored to prevent predators from destroying the plants while still very much vulnerable. Just look at the amount of work it is to grow a good plant.
On the other hand, looking at weeds, they grow in the toughest of places, they don’t need to be nursed or protected because they are of little value and they only grow to give useful plants problems and also to give humans problems of cutting and cleaning.
Why don’t corn just grow in a random place? Whereas an open land would immediately start growing useless plants.
There is a common characteristic of plants that just grow which is lack of purpose. You definitely would agree with me that weed don’t have purpose or let’s say they don’t have a reasonable purpose, because the only purpose they have is to give good plants and humans trouble along their success path.
Lack of purpose can affect you along you journey, I don’t think there is even a journey without a purpose. A journey without a purpose is called wandering.
Another common characteristic is the location of plants that just grow. You find plants that just grow anywhere at any time. The lack of purpose drives them anywhere.
It’s sad that many people live their life like plants that just grow and the more unfortunately, this kind of lifestyle they live affect the one that live with purpose. Imagine a work place where only two people know and are working to achieve the aim of the establishment and the rest thousand workers are just ineffectively working without direction, they would defined bring the establishment to ruin along side the one that work with purpose.
There is a lot of work to do when selecting people you want to work together with because they have a major role in the success or failure of the work to be done.
My message today is this, to bear good fruits, you need to be a good plant and good plants need to be nursed and groomed. Good plants need protection against predators, which is the same thing you need to do as a person that wants to be successful.
Protect yourself from harmful and useless people that are only there to give you problems along your journey to success.
Do you know what farmers do to unwanted and harmful plants?
They are cut and taken away to be burned, that’s the same thing you should do to harmful people around you.
Cut them away!