One special experience for a gardener is to watch a fruit ripen and ready to be plucked! I watched this mango over the last two weeks turning its skin colour to a yellowish tinge announcing that tit is almost ready to b plucked. As this happens to different tropical fruits during the summer months, there is feeling of immense satisfaction for the fruits to have weathered the hostile summer months! The summer months are known for summer rains, storm, and even disproportionate humidity all of which affect the fruit from reaching its ripening stage.
There is a time of waiting and the end is certain although not in sight!
Yesterday a 12 yard old boy, told me that, 'I have been studying as much as I can and yet I just manage to get pass marks'. It was a sad comment about his school experience and examination. Yet he spoke with confidence, expectancy of better days ahead and ready to battle through even more difficulties in his learning experience.
He is an athlete and sports enthusiast. During the conversation we explored the possibility of joining a sports academy where he can focus on his best abilities and study as well. There was a spark in his eyes and he seemed to recover from a hanger over of disappointment with which he came!
There is uncertainty during waiting and most of us wish that there was no waiting! No butterfly would be so colourful and flutter elegantly, had it not waited n the cocoon!
This is a lesson all of us need to carry with us- waiting fulfils a mission and there would be an end to it at the fullness of time!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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