The Law of Sowing and Reaping

We are going to reap just what we sow. We have heard this quote so many times – from our parents, from our friends, from fairytales, from our colleagues, and so many others. And just like many other old sayings it fells like we took it for granted, without any analysis, without any reasoning. But is it actually true that we are going to reap just what we sow?

Nature

Let‘s have a look at nature for example? If we decide to have tomatoes in our garden we simply need to plant tomato seeds. But if we plant cucumber seeds instead, we can‘t expect them growing in tomatoes. The cucumber seeds will help us have more cucumbers and there is nothing we can do about it. We are going to reap just what we sow.

Relationships

Now let‘s think about our relationships with others. If you smile at someone they will probably smile back at you almost by instinct. But if you start yelling at them or even try to beat them, there is a very little chance that they will smile. They would rather give the same back at you. We are going to reap just what we sow.

In recent years we have all heard about so may cases of huge amounts of plastics thrown out of the oceans on so many beaches around the world. Some researches even found that there is plastic in fish and unfortunately in our own bodies. We are now definitely reaping what we have been sowing in the last 50 years.

My Garden

If it is true that we always reap what we sow, maybe it would be good to ask ourselves a few questions from time to time:

• What seeds do I plant into my garden?

• What do I actually plant here – fear, poverty, riches, dreams?

• Do I choose the seeds for my garden or I let someone else throw their seeds in it?

And if we don‘t like the last year‘s harvest maybe it‘s time to consider what we are planting for the next season. Because we are going to reap just what we sow.

New Ideas for New Decisions

In my own opinion, our harvest depends on our own decisions. And the decisions we make usually depend on the way we think, or in other words, our own philosophy, which in turn is made of countless ideas, that we consider ours and affirm every single day.

Now we definitely hit the roots of everything – if we want to have different results, we need to make different decisions, and the best way for a different decision is trying a new idea.

Daily loading with new and different ideas helps us to enrich our garden by choosing the most beautiful and most useful for us. But before we accept an idea, it is good we analyze it very well. Because as we have found, we are going to reap just what we sow.