Plants and People
Welcome to conversations below the surface, the CBS podcast shorts. I am your host, Marcus Gentry, and we hope you enjoy this episode. Good friend of mine, David Giles, I used to call him the historian, gave me a bonsai plant. May he rest in peace. Gave me a bonsai plant and I loved it.
Speaker 1:He gave it to me because he heard me talk so much about how much I love the plant and I told him stories about my daughter and I going to the north side of the city and seeing this man in the shop that had all these bonsai plants. And, oh, I just went on and on about it. So he bought me one. And I I brought it home, and I absolutely loved it and kept it for a few months. And eventually I killed it.
Speaker 1:And I killed it because I spent more time loving it and desiring it than I did taking the time to learn the nature of that plant. See, I had a history of growing plants successfully. Most of them at least. And I watched my parents grow a variety of plants indoor, outdoor, did a fantastic job with them. So I assume that I could take care of this plant the same way that I did the rest of them.
Speaker 1:And the reality is it was of a different nature. And I didn't learn the nature of that plant, and I tried to treat it like the rest of them, and I caused it to die. And I'm mentioning that because people sometimes do the same thing with people that they love. They they spend more time talking about the kind of person they want to love and the kind of person they want, or they say they love someone, but they haven't spent the time to find out the nature of that person. So they're treating them based on old relationships that they had with someone else or maybe what they saw in terms of the way their mother and father related to each other, or aunts and uncles of people that they saw as they were growing up, or maybe even using examples of what they've seen on TV, and they try to treat that person they say they love in the same way that they saw someone treat someone else in the past, or the way they may have treated someone in the past instead of taking the time to learn the nature of that particular person.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And as humans, we all have certain characteristics of the same, but there are unique features about each person that is uniquely different. And if we truly want to love someone, it's wise to take the time to learn their nature, ask questions, observe to find out what is the nature, what will cause that person to thrive, to be their very best. There's another plant that I had, and I actually still have a couple of these plants. And not sure the name of it.
Speaker 1:It may be like a cornstalk. It has these big, long leaves, and it grows very tall. And most people, when it gets so high that it reaches the ceiling, they cut it. Matter of fact, I've even cut my plant in the past a couple of times. But this last time, I refused to cut it.
Speaker 1:I just didn't have the heart to cut it anymore. People cut the plant because it outgrows the environment that it's in and it doesn't fit into the decor of the home. Did you know that there are some people who treat other people the same way? When they start evolving or growing and expanding beyond that person's idea or concept of what they should be, then they start trying to stop their growth and development because it no longer fits the image that they had of that particular person. This is about plants but not really.
Speaker 1:Make sure that we take the time to learn about the thing or the person that we say that we love. Thank you for listening to this CBS Podcast Short. If you would like to hear more on this topic, please email me at respect at marcusgentry.com. And don't forget to check back for new episodes.
