Weeding

It’s almost amazing how much lesson one can learn from Nature. I developed an interest in weeding because they were sprouting, in my rosemary pot, at a faster rate than I could remove them. I figured that getting to the root of the problem was the only solution - to remove the mature plants that must be propagating seeds. And so as I set about weeding, it dawned upon me that we need to weed out unwanted influences in our lives as well. If we are not careful, weeds will crowd out the very object that we are trying to cultivate. As much as some plants/characters are inherently resilient to the presence of weeds, how can we be sure that the distractions won’t have negative influences on our growth? When the attention that was meant originally for the prized possession becomes dispersed, how well can it grow?