Weeds in your Garden?

The negative people around you are the weeds in your landscape of life. Do yourself a favor and pull the weeds.

-Nathan Burns

I have always felt that fundamentally, people don't change. An employee with attendance problems will always have attendance problems. Criminals will be criminals. Abusers will always be abusers etc. These people tend to correct their problem temporarily, but to always return to their previous ways.

I read a profound analogy on this today. It said problems are like weeds. If you have a garden full of weeds and you cut them down to ground level, suddenly your garden looks beautiful. But the weeds aren't really gone. The roots are still deeply embedded in the ground, waiting for the right conditions to grow. Eventually they will be back and your garden will once again be an untended patch of weeds.

The fact is people can change. However the only way I have personally seen people reverse this cycle is to have a genuine "life changing" experience. A near death type usually works, as does having a child (sometimes). These occurrences have a tendency to profoundly rearrange a persons priorities in life and are like digging out the roots in your garden of weeds.



Andrew Kotulak