IWJS Hearts This Analogy

This is called “The Tomato Analogy”, and no I’m not telling you where I got it from or in what context. It’s not important anyway. What’s important is the awesome message behind it. Read on!

“Look at it like a tomato. There are two ways to get em. Go to the store and buy em, or grow them in your own garden. What’s the difference? Oh I can’t wait to share this…

If you buy a tomato at the grocery store, you don’t think much about it. You take it home, hope that you got all the pesticides and critters washed off, and you eat it. No big deal. Have you ever had a truly fabulous tomato from a store? No. Why? Because they’re force-grown in a giant hothouse, picked green, and shipped before they’re even close to being ready. By the time they get to the store, they’re edible, but they’re just… “ok”. They’ve been “rushed” simply to get to the eatin part. Kinda hard to appreciate that don’t you think?

However, if you have a garden, you till the soil, you plant the seed, you water it, you keep the weeds and pests away, you watch it grow, you nurture it. Finally, when the time comes, the tomato is ready. It’s perfectly ripe for the pickin. You don’t have to worry about pesticides or diseases because you so lovingly took care of it yourself. So, you bite into it. WOW!!! It’s unbelievable how much richer, sweeter, juicier, and bursting with flavor homegrown tomatoes are! You do this and you’ll never buy another one from a store again. You will be a gardener for life. That’s what you’re after right? It takes work, but it’s so worth it in the end.

Just like the tomatoes, you have to give it time to grow. It has to be cultivated. It has to be earned. Respected. So, stop buying it at the store and grow your own!

Hugs,

xxxxxx

P.S. I actually DO grow my own veggies and melons. It’s amazing how much better they taste out of your own garden. It’s like flavor explosions compared to store bought.”