Monday, September 13, 2010

Sights and teachings of nature to us (ii)

Taking the series of entries i have begun, in this part i will try to present the beautiful scene of nature i saw in one of the blogs posted by a known person. Those who have made gardening as their hobby, might have come forth an experience when they planted and supported a small plant sapling to grow into a big shady tree or a gloomy flowering plant. I also have an experience of such kind. When I was a kid, we used to live in a Govt. accommodation where a large area was provided for gardening. Some people used it as a place to park their cars and for some it was an area where a layer of comfortable grass was grown and it was used as we go and walk in a park. But for us, it came to be used as a garden full of flowers and small bushes. I still remember when our gardener used to come for making it free of useless grass and other things. Once he came with a small sapling of guava tree. I guess it was rainy season. After shifting it from the plastic bag to our backyard soil, he asked me to get him some wooden pieces for it to stand. I was also fond of watching things like planting a tree and making the soil etc. We collected pieces of bamboo and within 15 minutes, a frame was ready before my eyes. He kept it in the frame for at least a month after which it became strong enough that even rain could not disturb him. Nowadays, it has grown up into a full fledged tree that yields plenty of fruits every year. 

Whats is my inference from this incident now that when we are kids like that small sapling, our parents put in full efforts to protect us from harsh faces of life as the gardener did by making a frame around the sapling to protect it from rain. But once we become strong enough to stand and bear all that harshness ourselves, we are left free to make efforts on our own to bear everything and face all the difficulties. We should not feel lonely at any point of life and stand high fearlessly against the wind as a tree does. As nature makes that tree capable of bearing all the things it makes us also...

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