Ask Yourself What’s YOUR Flavour?
As you live life you keep entering and exiting situations. Every situation has an outcome, whether good or bad. In every situation, as a human being, you tend to react in a good or a bad way. So you do certain things and your actions result in the outcome of the situation.
On a broad level, every time and in every situation you can either: succeed, lose or draw.
You also have, in every situation, a bag of bitter gourd seeds representing bad deeds and apple seeds representing good deeds. Every time you respond, you are planting seeds to reap later on. While reaping, If your stock consists more of apples then you’ve been doing good and you must have planted more apple seeds in the past and less bitter gourd seeds. But if your stock consists more of bitter gourd, then you have done way too many bad deeds in the past and planted many bitter gourd seeds. You can choose to sell your stock to others as well. Even in this particular activity you are planting seeds depending on which part of your stock your selling. If you sell apples then you automatically sow more apple seeds and flourish your apple plantation. If you sell bitter gourd, its vice verse.
The result of a situation depends on your actions in that situation. Your actions could be good or bad. A good action, means you are planting an apple seed and a bad action, means you are planting a bitter gourd seed.
In most situations, you reap fruits from earlier plantations and plant more new ones to reap later on. This cycle is constant and repeats every time, whether you believe it or not.
If you receive help in a situation and succeed, the number of apples increase in your inventory. If you received help but still didn’t succeed, chances are you are gathering too much bitter gourd.
‘Help’ could be in the form of anything helpful to steer the outcome of the situation. The nature of that ‘Help’ depends on the kind of seeds you been sowing. You carry the stock with you always because that the food for your soul. Along the way, your harvest replenishes your inventory. You keep planting these seeds everywhere you go. Sooner or later you are going to have a whole field of these plants and you are going to have to reap them to consume it all or sell to increase further stock.
So again, What’s your flavour?
The trick is to ask other people around you what your flavour is…and preferably have them reply anonymously in writing… they have a clearer and more critical idea of what they see we are sowing 🙂 …but I’d like to think I am sowing as many apple seeds as possible.
If you happen to have too many apples then, I would be happy to buy some! 😉
sorry …but you can’t buy them, they are gifts… given freely.
Like this: http://kiwidutch.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/new-619
Lovely article.. made me think a little 🙂
Whether any situation is “good” or “bad” is all perception. Things that may seem bad could be due to the fact that it’s not going the direction as planned for/expected. What’s out of expectation could be something even better years down the road and at the time we simply would not have the ability or the vision to see it.
Life has its amazing way of leading or showing us the beauty of living in this world. My approach is to give effort and enjoy the moment while having faith in everything will work out for the better in the future. And in the meantime, give out honey without killing the bees. 🙂
Nice post and thank you for liking my recent post! 🙂
Jean
P.S. What name can I call you other than ROAS? 😉
Very nice perspective which simplifies a lot of complications.. 🙂
I have always believed that whatever happens, happens for good and over time it turns out to be true!!
You can call me Nevil..
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your perspective 🙂
You are very welcome, Nevil! 🙂
I’m a simple person and that explains why my perspective is that way. 🙂 When I was a kid, I was told that you’ve really read a book when all that you have from this book is just a few points. And I wish that life is that way. 🙂
Jean
I wish life were that simple too 😉
I think, life doesn’t have the word ‘simple’ in it’s dictionary.. It ain’t life unless you are screwed up!! 🙂
I wish life were that simple too 😉
I think, life doesn’t have the word ‘simple’ in it’s dictionary.. It ain’t life unless you are screwed up!! 🙂
I followed your blog, because you have some amazing photography put up on it..
Thank you, Nevil! I’m glad that you like the photographs on my site and now I have one more friend in the blog-world. 🙂
Yey! Me too! 🙂
interesting thoughts. I was actually just standing in the garden last night thinking about the metaphor of reaping what you sow. Thanks for liking my post!
Thanks for coming over and sharing your thought.. 🙂
So what’s your flavour?
I am most definitely more apple… and having gone through some rough patches of my life and choosing only to sow the apple seeds despite others actions and my hurt feelings- it turns out that the apple orchard has gotten far bigger than I could have expected at a time when I thought I only saw gourds.
Haha.. Awesome! It does pay right? Sowing apple seeds? 🙂