I really don’t know! Maybe I am getting soft hearted and sentimental in my old age and thus my activities of yesterday confirm that!
You see it was time to pull out the dying tomato vines which had excelled themselves this year and produced heaps of beautiful, firm, ripe, flavoursome tomatoes
Now, as their reward, I was pulling them out by the roots, chopping them up and throwing them into the green rubbish. No ceremonies, no farewells, no tears!
Well, yes, there were some tears as I started to think about those tomato bushes as a metaphor for life.
How often when somebody leaves our employ or fades out of our life do we honour them and give thanks for the contribution to our company or our lives? (Oh yes, I know we do when we go along to their funerals but I’m talking about when they depart our business or personal spheres. Like old soldiers, they just fade away!)
It seems to me we forget people and their contribution to our lives pretty quickly just as I have done with those tomato plants. Once they delivered for me they were discarded.
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Although, as a mate said to me this morning, when I philosophised about it whilst walking the dogs, “At least they were going into the green bin where they would ultimately make a contribution to another life.“
And I guess those people who have gradually faded from our circle of business or friendship are making a contribution to other lives.
Maybe this is just a heap of sentimental tosh or perhaps it’ll remind you to pause and remember the people you have discarded too.
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