WATER EVERY SEED
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Have you wondered what different things might have been, but for one little decision?
Just the slightest course alteration.
The person you met or avoided – a choice you made or avoided, the path you took or avoided.
Continuous variables – a miracle that you are where you are, alive, sane, and full of hope.
Every choice will make life better, or worse, or different – and will alter outcomes.
Every failure to choose has the same consequences. Every choice we make today is no less important or consequential than any choice we’ve ever made.
The big ones seem enormous, and the tiny ones equate more to the significance of an annoying gnat or some schmutz on the microwave oven door.
Whether small or inconsequential, every choice has consequences we don’t have a grip on today, but they will show up one day, and we will live with the result. You cannot predict this, and there is no denying that everything of consequence in our life can be traced back to some little things, some moment when events and people collided, colluded, or bumped into each other.
Every last one of us starts life as someone’s miracle baby, full of hope and opportunity – the possibilities are endless.
And every choice-point along our path has altered the outcome, like a step in any learning progression or the folly of failure playing a video game. Where we lived, whom we attended school with, where we worked, whomever we met there – every twist and turn could lead to an award ceremony or acrimony, the high-life, or a sad ending. Nobody knows, but hindsight teaches; everybody knew.
The seeds that determine our future aren’t ones we plant today, but the fruit or crop failure of ones we’ve planted, nurtured and grown all our lives.
Plant more seeds.
Plant every day.
Water them daily.