Sapoot & Kapoot
Gardening has a way of teaching you life’s lessons easily, which no other medium can teach with ease. Let me explain. This Spring I planted Nasturtiums seeds in pots and ground. It has already been blogged about here. With that I thought there was nothing more to write about them. Description in three mediums covered it all. But I was happily mistaken. Now in August, their growth rate has completely changed and in doing so, revealed a life’s lesson.
The ones in the pots have no flowers and the leaves are tiny. They are smaller than 1/3rd of an adult finger. They look like miniature plants. The ones planted in the ground have tons of flowers and leaves as big as an adult palm! The branches have grown horizontally and even vertically on to neighboring plants! They look like a dense ground cover now, which gives me ideas for the future 
And now for an interesting parallel in life. A lady I know has two sons. Upon completing their formal education, one chose to stay with her and the other left for the lure of the foreign land. Now they are both in their mid-sixties. The one who stayed with his parents had his aspirations limited within the footprint of the aspirations created by them. The one who left, grew, and grew and grew. He founded two very successful companies, became a venture capitalist and now is into philanthropy, big time. Their mother calls them Sapoot (who stayed with her) and Kapoot (who flew away). I look upon them as potted Nasturtium and Nasturtium grown in rich soil, for abundant growth Gardening indeed has a way of teaching you life’s lessons. Here are a few lines from a prayer in Hindi (author unknown to me), which I find very appropriate to wrap up this post:
Swayam vidhata ho hey manav (be the creator of your own life)
Chaloh na mitateh padchinoh par (do not walk on faded footprints)
Apne rastey aap banao (create your paths on your own)
Ratna
Potted growth
Horizontal growth
Vertical growth
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