What I learnt while gardening

I am sure everybody will agree that maintaining a garden is a beautiful and fulfilling art.

Seeing a seed, laid by you, grow into a plant and yield fruits gives so much happiness and satisfaction (more than how a parent would feel seeing their kids grow and be on their own in life). A beautiful garden is not just one plant or tree. Its a collection of a variety of plants and maintaining them requires that you spend time with them consistently.

Not every seed that you lay grows into a plant or tree!

When you have access to a piece of land to make it a garden, you would try to find out all different plants or trees (flower yielding, fruit yielding, vegetable yielding or medicinal plants or some crotons). Its always a good idea to have a variety of plants grown in the garden, as you never know which would yield more or which will never yield. So even if one choice of plant does not work out, still there are many others that would give you yield and happiness. Also, we need to make sure that the different varieties of plants would be able to peacefully grow with each other.

Not every new sapling that shows its head out in your garden is planted by you! 

Many a times our gardens could surprise us.  After a heavy rain, you could see that there are lot of new mushrooming plants, some of them you may not even know how to call it. 

Not every sapling not planted by you is a weed!

Thanks to technology, you  take a picture of it and search in google and would be surprised to see that few of them are medicinal herbs and few of them are vegetable yielding plants that have grown from the kitchen wastes you have thrown. And you start searching to find out how to arrange them so that they all grow without occupying your walkway and also without obstructing each other's growth.

Walking down my own garden, the above thoughts crossed my mind. Suddenly it struck to me that your garden can be compared to your life and the plants in your life are the skills you learn or acquire. 

Not every skill you have, is learnt by you.

Not every skill you have learnt, helps you.

And you are not aware of all the skills you have (Many a times, we are like Lord Hanuman. Some one needs to remind us that we have so and so skill).

We need to identify and develop skills in such a way that we would be able to devote enough time in nourishing each of them. All the skills may or may not be useful to us. So, identifying the skills we already have and identifying the right skills that could co exist and also would make our life beautiful are arts in themselves.

Grooming a garden is a journey where we are not working towards a single goal. Instead we take it one day at a time and would be happy to do everyday. Similarly, nourishing the skills in our life is also a beautiful journey which when done consistently by devoting sufficient time to it, would be a beautiful journey. And such a journey in itself is a success in life!!

Yes, to live is an art!!