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Since I have been dealing with the weeds in my garden I have been thinking about the "weeds" that are an inexorable part of life. I would define them as the forces that are always trying to take over our existence. These are the forces we keep at bay but never really get rid of.
I suppose the gradual deterioration of our body has to top the list ending as it must in death. I think we have to fight the fear of death before we can actually take what steps are necessary to keep it at bay as long as possible. We have to take the measure of it in some rational way and do battle.
Our main tool is our will to act, which we have to carry around at the ready like the garden fork. It is so easy to sink back in the chair and say, "I'll exercise tomorrow" or "I'll get that checkup next year". If we don't exercise regularly gravity will pull us down, our muscles will wither and we will be feeble before we have to be. If we don't find out the cause of what is going wrong with our bodies we will give them over to whatever weed /disease is on the attack without finding the root of it and digging it out or using the bag of weed killers at our disposal to kill it or simply changing our planting patterns to optimize our survival. We have to use the love we have for ourselves and others to cover us very much like the mulch we put on our gardens to keep in the moisture and keep out the weeds.
So I guess I feel if we want as much order and beauty in our life as we can get, we must treat it as a garden, keeping our will at the ready to help us fight the natural disorder that is constantly pushing at the borders.
