Pruning Yourself and Bringing Growth

Recently, I was inspired by various plants in my terrarium. You see, my plants are stored in a glass case which we got for our wedding. There are four different plants in the terrarium that have previously appeared very healthy, until recently when we were staying at a motel and they weren't treated right. During this time, many of the leaves started to wilt and change colors. Other leaves started to decay. I was oddly worried for my plants and I tried watering them which doesn't seem to help much. But this is exactly what you shouldn't do.

You see, my inexperience with plants forced me to do some research. When a plant is dying you are still able to save it as long as you keep the various parts which are still living and prune off the parts which are dying. As much as it might hurt you to do so and you think that if you cut off certain parts it will surely die. As I began to prune off the wilting portions, I began to think about myself and the parts of my personality which are either fading away or dying. For people, we aren't necessarily able to cut off the parts of us which are dying when it comes to our mentality. Sometimes we need to do some mental pruning. But why?

With a plant, you prune off the leaves, you reduce the amount of sunlight it receives, and you limit the water. This limiting process forces the plant to recharge itself and fight for survival because that is the main goal of plants.

How often are we just sitting idly and fading away? When we lose ourselves and our perspective on life, we are subjecting ourselves to the decay which corrupts us with the complacent mentality we may be quite familiar with. Sometimes we need to take a leap of faith and reach a point where we are trying to survive. This will rejuvenate us and help us to find more pleasure in life.

Though it has been too soon to see how my plant will react to its new stature, I am confident that it will survive and I feel better when I walk into the room. We should all look into our lives and find what we can prune and what we need to survive whatever the problem may be. When you begin to broaden your scope, you will see that this applies to so many things. Remember, it will be a struggle, but that's how you blossom.