Always a sucker for a good metaphor, I thought I'd share this with you:
"It is of the nature of idea to be communicated: written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on."
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed.
So this blog is me communicating my ideas; I'd like it if you stepped on them.
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Grass craves light, definitely, and I guess it could be considered to 'like crowds' -- certainly much more than other plants -- and most things thrive on crossbreeding... but I do not believe that grass grows better for being stepped on. At least, that's what I was taught through my whole long childhood in red clay North Carolina, where grass only grows at all with a whole lot of care and coaxing, and "don't walk on the grass" signs have strong practical justifications and are often strictly enforced.
Though it's certainly true that once grass takes root somewhere, it stands walking-on much better than other plants.
Ideas, too, can probably stand a good stomping provided they have a strong theoretical network of roots and rhizomes. But I don't want to stomp on your ideas. I want to cross-pollinate.
Kalea is right, grass grows better if you disturb it every once in a while. Of course, if you step too much and the same place constantly, then it dies. But the point is to find the balance and it grows better and with more biodiversity. Why bother growing just grass if you can get a meadow?
I was reading your earlier post about wanting to keep your own sandwich and freedom to decide. In a way I'm jelous and proud of you being able to stand up straight on your own. Be free and go where ever you want to go and do what is best for you, and you only. On the other hand, sharing your sandwich can be as well if you find "the right person". Of course it limits in a way, you have to bear in mind the other person when making decisions. But if you can make the decisions together, it can give you even more than just doing alone.
I wouldn't say any is better than the other. It's all about choises and what one wants from life. I love the comfort I get when I go home and get to sleep next to him and share my ideas whith him. I know he supports me with my decisions and I support him. I've learned a lot from myself and life since I started living with him I wouldn't learn otherwise. That was my choise but your decision doesn't sound bad either. Just think about it a little, if the man of your life walks by.
I hope you don't think I'm offering you the wedding bouquet. I'm just planting some seeds.
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