The Mango Farmer

I recently discovered farming as a side hussle. The first trial didn't go so well but I was grateful for the lesson. It is a venture I had always wanted to explore and I am glad to have dared take that path. In my farming experience I wanted the fast maturing crops of three months maximum and ventured into melon farming. I got into a partnership where I was to provide capital while my partner provided labor. Capital meant all expenses involving money were on my shoulder. There would be tough times when he would call asking for money to spray pesticides and I would get so mad more so because I didn't understand why spraying was necessary every week. But my partner knew why it was necessary and persisted.

His work at the farm was to tender for the crops. Now that was three months and it felt like a life time. Today I remembered that experience and I wondered what a mango farmer goes through before they can start reaping from the mango trees. See unlike me who went through the struggle for a short period of time and made one harvest, his takes time to grow and tender but gives him a life long harvest. This whole picture gave me a lesson i want to share with you.

See most of us are melon farmers. We want to reap fast and go on our way. We want quick kills, we have lost the will to tender and care and have a life long harvest from that which we tender for. The reason most relationships are not working today is because we rush everything and forget that if we want to be together for a life time we shall need to be patient and watch over the seed till a time it can produce fruits. During the time the seed of our relationship is growing, we shall need to prune the leaves , add manure and once in a while weed out the weeds.

Don't expect to harvest big from the seeds of your relationship if you are not spending time tendering the seeds as they grow. Remember if no pruning is done the extra branches choke up all the nutrients and the tree eventually has no extra nutrients to produce enough fruits. Continued storage of wrong doings by your spouse only sucks out the good in your relationship. Lets take time to weed out bad things in the relationship to ensure we have enough to appreciate around us.

Cockroaches in the Cup

Every morning when I get to the office I ensure I boil water and put in a flask to drink as I work. Its a habit I have been doing for a lond period now. Today morning was no different, except for the fact that sink had visitors(roaches) and not the small kind. There were huge cockroaches in my cup. I almost puked and threw away the cup. Actually they were in my favorite cup. It was disgusting to think i would use the cup again. I remembered my boss once saying though the cups are washed he had to rinse with hot water before using them. Something I thought was extreme till I saw the visitors in my cup today.

Perhaps they have been walking inside the cup and I use the cup soon after. Eiuu!! So I made a decision to pour out the roaches wash the cup with soapy hot water and rinse it with hot water. Actually I will from now hence forth do that. I blame the fumugation that happened in the adjacent office that didn't happen in ours. So the roaches moved to a home that isn't a death bed. Next fumugation our office isn't missing out . Throwing the cup was the easy thing to do but how would that solve the issue at hand. And that brought the lesson for today.

See there will be times when unwanted visitors and uncomfortable situations will invade our territory. Misunderstandings will arise in our relationships. We have a choice to abardon the projects we are undertaking or work through the misunderstanding or remove the unwanted visitors and proceed to enjoy the fruits of our relationships or projects. Yes some things are disgusting to pour out and continue as if nothing happened but how does throwing it all away help? How many things will we throw in our life just because unwanted visitors invaded our territory?

Lets make an informed decision before we chose to take the easy way out or abandon a project we set ourselves to take.

It Hurts To start Again!!

With the sudden change in size I had three choices; get comfortable with new size , work out to my original size(I felt it was too small btw) or tone up to a size between my original and new size. Well i chose the latter. True to it i was determined to lose a few kgs as i tone up on  a few areas I felt needed adjusting. Well i was doing well when I started and was focused to meet my target. Lucky for me I even got company to soldier me on in the journey. Unfortunately my company relocated and I got slowed down in the process and getting back on track seemed a big nightmare.

To add salt to injury I got comfortable and barely exercised, surprisingly I lost weight without exercising. All was going well until I weighed myself last week and noticed I had added a kilo. Not a pleasant sight btw. And that revelation made me notice how easily i was tiring over a short distance walk. And so I started the journey to tonning again on Mon. Yesterday all of me was aching. I dreaded taking the stairs, today is no different. The pain is real but i can't stop because I know why i have embarked on this journey again. And there comes the lesson for the day.

See every time we have to stop and start again it will hurt. Each time a relationship goes sour and one has to start dating a fresh its going to hurt. Each time one loses their savings in a business gone sour and they have to start saving again its going to hurt. The good thing about each new start is, its different from the last start. Each closure means a start with experience. There is nothing wrong with making a brand new start to have a different ending. The wrong is continuing to stay in unpleasant situations just because one is afraid it will hurt starting all over again.

Always rem the bulb inventor didn't fail 1000times He made 1000 steps towards discovering the bulb.