I went to a political rally at a beautiful wedding venue . Thirty years ago a couple had taken a piece of land with a creek in it and transformed it into a garden of Eden .
They turned the stream into a giant koi pond and planted grasses and trees around it which grew up to be a gorgeous dreamscape. I never have seen grasses grow to 14 feet tall nor have I seen a seven foot koi .
A koi will grow to the size of the pond they have to live in .
I’m wondering if people aren’t the same way. . We are in a sort of mental pond . We get used to doing our routine and it feels comfortable and pretty soon we get numb .
When I do things outside of what I am comfortable with , even something small like read a book I wouldn’t ordinarily read or go somewhere I never went before , or talk to someone I totally disagree with to understand their point of view , I grow .
I’m a koi in an expandable pond. It’s also a retractable pond, I can shrink it .
That’s the thing it’s flexible .
My husband spends every day listening to horribly hard audio books while he works. I tried to listen to some but found it was stressful to have to stop and try and keep up with the story . It’s way easier to listen to something I already can relate to . But he forces himself to listen to the end of these tomes even if he is struggling. He told me in the end he is able to read more and more scholarly as he goes on .
I could learn a thing or two from him and enlarge my little koi pond .
