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What Seeds Are You Sowing For Future Harvest?
I love planting flowers. For me, flowers are nature’s anti-depressants. I look at them, and I feel happy. If I’m already happy, I feel even more happy.
When I plant the seeds and bulbs, I imagine what they are going to look like in a few months and how great it’s going to be to have fresh flowers in the garden or window sill and in a vase on my table.
There’s lots of quotes like “giving equals receiving” and “you reap what you sow” and I believe that works in all aspects of our lives especially where writing is concerned. Our words are seeds and when we plant them, we reap something in return.
Why do you write?
What seeds are you planting with your writing?
Do you want your words to grow and be published?
What harvest do you want to reap after you plant those seeds?
These are questions I ask myself.
Why do I write? I write because I have to write. There is something that calls me. Is it a muse, Great Spirit or just a voice in my head? Whatever it is, it compels and entices me. It asks me to share my wisdom, to bare my soul, to spill my guts. It asks me to pull the pain out of myself and put it onto paper, to pull the joy out of the air and write it so that others can feel it too. It asks…