One Apple A Day #782 - change is life
Almost every day, I check the plants and vegetables in my garden to see how they're doing. I mostly look for changes.
A tomato getting slightly reddish or the aubergine getting a bit bigger, things like those.
If a plan doesn't show signs of change, I begin to worry.
Obviously, changes can also communicate that something is not working. However, until there are changes, I know there is life.
I realised this while I was walking around the garden and talking with a friend at the same time.
We were discussing the need for organisations to have a form or shape of some sort. And my resistance in defining things, in giving a shape to something like a collaboration between people.
At that moment, among my tomatoes, my fennels and my cabbages, I realised that I was conditioned to think of shapes as something fixed. I've been taught to look for stability only to learn later in life that when I'm not changing, I don't feel alive. So I began to resist forms, structures and shapes.
But if I look at form as something that says just who I am today and not who I will be tomorrow, then many of those fears just dissolve.
Any form should continuously evolve and change like everything else in nature. If the form of everything stays the same for a while, then it may be time to check if that form is still alive.
Because, until there are changes, you know there is life.