Story of The Weed - Tale of Inspiration
Published on September 9, 2020
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What is the definition of the word "weed"? I know a lot of writers who start out a paragraph with this kind of question end up giving the exact definition from their desired dictionary, but I'm not going to do that. Sorry and You're Welcome to whom it may concern.
To me, a self-described plant nerd, a weed is simply an undesired plant inside a desired plane of earth; it can also be described as the right plant in the wrong place. I don't believe any plant should be considered a problem in and of itself. It's just a matter of logistics.
Stop for a minute and consider something with me...
My driveway has been scraped down to bare clay out of a cow pasture and covered with packed asphalt crush and run for almost eight years. The other day I easily pulled out at least thirty "weeds" from the area where we park our cars near our house! I probably have to do this three or four times a season.
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The crab grass, bluegrass, clover and whatever else a cow pasture is made up of was there first, right? Well, even if its been carved up out of a mountainous, rocky pasture and sat upon by two couple thousand pound vehicles for a lot of years, these plants still make their way up to meet the sunlight... and thrive, no less.
UNTIL...
Someone comes along and pulls the weed up out of its comfortable spot and leaves it to wither away. It seems like something doesn't want it there, huh?
It takes some time and energy, but eventually there will be another plant where the other was pulled from. That "weed" doesn't care one way or the other whether it'll get pulled and die or grow and thrive... it just erupts out of brief collamity and does its best to be just what it was meant to be...
A metaphorical thorn in someone's side or an object of healing.
"A weed is a plant whose virtues have not been discovered."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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