It's almost a year since I started having fish. More than a year for reptile keeping, and I'm still trying to find my place in gardening as a hobby.
However, I was not always blessed with being able to sustain life by taking care of things.
As a younger girl, I always doted too much on the things that I used to keep. The usual result was that they always died on me right before my very eyes, and oftentimes, I couldn't do anything to keep them alive.
Take my sunflower, for example.
I first tried to grow sunflowers in order to prove to myself that I was just clumsy as a child in growing grass, and since they're quite easy to keep, I should be able to grow some myself.
However, I did not know that being too attentive towards my plants would make them die on me.
Every day as I came home from school, I watered the seeds relentlessly in order to start its germination process. They did sprout, but in the end, all that was left was one lone sunflower. Thankfully, it did give me some seeds to start over again.
However, I was not happy with how things turned out, and I ended up having to put off gardening for a long time until college where I tried to start over again.
Same method, same result.
This time, however, I learned to pace myself with my fish and my turtles.
I let them grow in their own pace, and I gave them nourishment only when they need it. When I decided to grow a rose bush on a whim, I did the same thing with it.
No longer did I use fertilizers and other gardening tools. I was just depending on an old large pot and fish tank water for its growth. As for my shrimp, I just made sure its tank always had clean water and the aquarium fan was always running to cool their water.
And this time, things grew beautifully for me.
What's the lesson here?
Learn to give things their own time to grow. Time may be slow at first, but things will be ready before you know it.
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