Life Is A Garden

They say, life is like a boxing match – you don’t lose when you get knocked down.  You lose by staying down.  So, continually rise, continually grown and continually succeed.

I’ve hear that life is like a roller coaster that we can either scream every time we hit a bum or we can throw our hand up in the air and enjoy it. Or… life is like war – life and death, everything is a struggle, battle, troops, armies, conflict, the enemy, resistance, us and them, and the hierarchy of command.

If I’m not be mistaken I also has hear some say life is just like painting – draw the lines with hope while erase the errors with tolerance.

A couple day earlier I’ve read this one book that say life is like photography – develop from negatives or digital, looking for beauty, focus on one thing to succeed, requires skill, close up or panoramic, full of snap shots.

Even in my previous post, I have say that life is like surfing.  I’d believe that there another great metaphor for life as like life is a garden because: 

We have to be willing to plant the seeds and plant the plants.

We have to go out and buy them, dig a hole and stick them in and do all sorts of bending, lifting and squatting.  Just like the way we live our life - we build dreams, place and stick it deep inside of our heart as we let and learn bringing new thing into our own life.

We have to have patience

As we waits for seed to grow – just like when we be patience when our life turn into something that we have never ever imagine at all.  It’s hard, it’s tougher and it’s rougher yet somehow, we manage to keep ourselves lock down and inhale/exhale calmly.

If we don’t do the work, we don’t eat.

We don’t plant; we don’t get to eat because there’s nothing on the garden.  And that’s a lot like life.  We have to stay strong and keep walking even though right in front of us the bigger storm we’ve witness.  Or otherwise, we’ll fail.

It’s hard to do it alone

It’s all true.  We need someone’s help and it’s always better if we have people around to help out when we need it.  Like when you have to go to the town for a things then you’d ask someone like your neighbor/friend/husband to take care of your garden while you’re out.  In living our life, we also can’t be alone because, sure we can success and being a independent person, but there are time when we feel like we needing someone.  I’m sure we can’t lose something/someone precious in our life, right?  So, let them in if they want to help.

Sometimes, we have to let thing go

Like when our favorite plants fall down in a storm.  There’s nothing else we can do except saying good-bye and learning to let thing go is good because if we still stick around the old things, then how will a new thing come into our life?

It’s all about love

Ultimately, the reward for gardening and living can’t be measured in time, ringgit or possessions.  It’s only about love.  We do it for love.  Love is the reward.  Love is all the maters.  After all, love is all that lasts after we are gone.