Seed of Desire

If you were a seed, what would you be?

At first, I didn’t quite know how to answer this question. But, upon pondering on this question, I began to slowly chip away at it.

First, I had to narrow down something in order to get to some sort of conclusion. I know for sure, I wouldn’t want to be in a desert. So that’s one mark out of the window.

Second, I know I wouldn’t want to grow into the tallest tree in the forest because, “the tallest tree gets the most wind.” In other words, gets most attention with that comes with its own consequences and perks.

Lastly, I want to be somewhere quiet, and serene. I’d imagine somewhere higher in elevation, mountains, lakes and forest. Fresh air, not totally excluded, but within reach but also outreached. A perfect balance between the two, I can be included or excluded by choice.

With those conditions in mind, I knew exactly where I would want to be and where to grow in a sense of location.

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I’ve come to understand that everything is connected to one another’s so understand my locational desires began to reveal certain inner traits.

For instance, not wanting to be in the desert, brought some light into what and what do not like. Hot weather, is on the bottom of my list of enjoyments. Whereas, cold weather is where I throughly enjoy to be wrapped in scarfs and clothes.

Simply because when it comes to heat, I can only take off so much clothing until I’ve reached my limit. When it comes to the cold, I can always put on more, and do something to increase the heat. I find it to be a lot more comforting and enjoyable.

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Secondly, not wanting to become the tallest tree, brought some light into what I’d want to strive for. I have ambitions and goals, but also I wouldn’t want to run the world. Every tree has it’s limitations and to go beyond that has it’s own challenges that I would not want to explore.

Thus, to become the best version that I could be means I’d be content with the goals I set for my self. Knowing very well that everything requires harmony and balance, to strive too far also creates an imbalance of not striving at all. So a fine balance between the two would create such contentment.

To come to such conclusion, I’d envision my self on my deathbed. What would I want to have done/become in order to feel as if I left this world with what I wanted and done all that I’ve wanted. That is simply, to follow my hearts content, and do what fulfills me.

There will always be an endless amount of things to experience on earth, one cannot experience everything. Even if one would experience the greatest depth there ever was, but then one day realize that it was not in ones interest after all, then for what was it worth?

I’d rather explore the depths end of the hearts interest rather than the greatest depth of the minds interest.

“Follow the heart, plan with the mind.” -T

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Lastly, to be somewhere quiet brought light into where and how I’d like to operate. I am not someone who’d to disrupt the peace nor peace the disrupt. Simply, an existence within both. When the wave goes up, so do I, when it goes down, so do I. One with the one, not two against one.

In other words, when a storm is coming, no need to fight it. Knowing when not to build is equally important to knowing when to build.

As long as I keep progressing on my vision, even if it is just one strand of grass. In the desert, one strand of grass is viewed greatly different than in the highlands so by no means take the smallest for the slightest. For it is the smallest that makes the greatest.

After all, an avalanche is the accumulation of tiny innocent snow flakes.

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