What I have learned from Gardening
From now on, my blogs will be in English and Roman Urdu. It is just to cater Pakistani audience better.
English
(Scroll to the bottom for Roman Urdu)
Assalam o Alaikum and Hello there! In this blog I am going to talk about the most important aspect of our lives, is a “Hobby”.
I think this blog will go on and keep getting updated till this platform is here.
I was looking for the perfect quote on a Hobby but wasn’t able to find one so, here comes my own:
Hobby is something that shapes you, and if you are not enjoying doing it. It’s not your Hobby and you are actually wasting your time!
I will categorize my learnings so, you can find them easily. Also, I’ll explain my understanding of each of them.
Success or Motivation
- Weeds grow on their own while, it takes hard work to grow a plant that fruits.
Explanation: Sometimes I wonder where all these bad people are coming from like in the shape of politicians, scammers, and some others so, we have a lot of bad people and few good people.
The question is, How do the bad people keep coming; so, this answered my question.
To become bad you don’t have to do anything but, to be good you have to do a lot of hard work (like watering the plant, providing fertilizer to it, protecting it from over-watering or from direct Sun in Summer; same goes for humans). - There are 2 types of plants (generally)
1. Creeper (in simple words, a plant that requires support like Tomato)
2. Plant (in simple words, a plant that becomes a tree like a Mango tree)
The Creeper grows from the seed within a week while the Plant takes almost a month to sprout. But, if you pluck the Creeper at any stage of its life, you’ll be able to easily take out its roots while for a Plant (like a Mango or Orange) you can’t take out the roots of a plant that is a month old because it has stronger and deeper roots at the bottom.
Explanation: That is by the way self-explanatory and even most of the people have quoted it.
Slow progress, permanent success!
If you try to make fast progress by doing things without understanding them, you might bear fruit but, a time will come when you’ll be unable to do the work because you haven’t understood it properly.
So, first, understand the basics properly and then go for it.
Just like they say in programming.
“5 hours of Debugging = 1 hour of Reading Documentation”
3. Every plant has its own time to bear fruit.
Explanation: My neighbors, have a Guava plant that fruits every year while ours doesn’t. So my mom asks,
“If there is a problem with our Guava.”
The thing is, that Guava plant (of my neighbors) was planted way before (almost 5–8 years before) I planted Guava. So, it’ll take that much time to bear fruit.
That is with our life, we just see others who started way before us and succeeded and think we have failed in life. That’s not the case, you either just started late or you are going in your own success timeline.
Parenting
- Not every plant requires the same amount of water.
Explanation: Similar, goes for the kids, not every kid requires the same amount of attention (some require space) while some require more attention than others (just like plants, some plants require more while, some require less water).
As I have mentioned, this is not the end of the list. It’ll keep growing with time.
Stay tuned!
Roman Urdu
Assalam o Alaikum! Is blog mein, mein humari zindagi ky aik bohat hi important aspect ky baray mein baat krny laga hun joky hai, “Hobby”.
Mujhy lagta hai ky mera ye blog update hota rhy ga jaisay, jaisay mein kuch naya seekhta rhun ga, aur jb tk ye platform yahan pr hai.
Mein Hobby ky baray mein koi quote dhoondh rha tha likin mila nhi, tou ye rha mera quote:
Hobby aik aisi cheez hai, jo insaan ki zindagi ko shakal deti hai, aur agar aap usko krny sy sukoon mehsoos nhi krty. Tou darasal wo aap ki Hobby nhi hai, aur aap apna waqt zaya kr rhy hain!
Ab tk jo bhi meiny seekha hai, mein usko categorize kr dun ga, aur tafseel sy bayan krun ga, jis sy apko unko dhoondnay aur smjhanay mein asani hogi.
Success ya Motivation
- Jangli podhay khud ba khud ug (grow) jatay hain, jb ky phal (fruit) dar podhon ko uganay mein mehnat lgti hai.
Tafseel (Explanation): Aksar mein sochta hun ky ye buray log kahan sy atay hain, jaisay ky politicians, scammers, aur kuch dosray.
Tou ye buray log khud ba khud kahan sy atay ja rhay hain, aur achay log kahan kho gaye hain.
Is sawal ka jawab mujhy is quote sy mila ky,
Bura bannay ky lye apko kuch nhi karna parta, aur acha bannay ky lye bohat mehnat krni parti hai (jaisay ky hum podhon ko pani dety hain, khaad daltay hain, taiz dhoop, aur zayada pani sy bachatay hain. Insanon ky sath bhi aisa hi hai).
- 2 Tarah ky podhy hoty hain (zayada tr):
1. Bail dar podhy (Creeper plants jaisay ky Tamatar or Tomato).
2. Jar walay podhy (Plants jaisay ky Mango or Orange)
Bail dar podhy takreeban 1 haftay mein beij (seed) sy nikal aty hain jb ky, jar walay podhy takreeban 1 maheenay mein nikalty hain. Likin agar aap bail dar podhy ko uski zindagi ky kisi bhi hissay mein uski jar (root) sy ukharny (pluck) ki koshih karein gy tou wo bahar ajaye ga. Likin agar aap jar walay podhy (jaisy ky aam (mango) ya kinu (orange)) ko ukhar (pluck) nhi skty, phir chahy wo sirf 1 month ka hi kyun na ho. Kyunky iski jarein (roots) bohat gehri aur mazboot hoti hain.
Tafseel (Explanation): Ye wesy tou khud hi sari baat bta rha hai, aur bohat sy logon ny is baray mein kayi baar ye baat kahi hai:
Jo ahista (slow), ahista agay barhta hai, wohi abdi (permanent) kamyabi hasil kr pata hai.
Agar app cheezon ko samjhay baghair agay barho gy tou aap waqti (temporary) tor pr kamyabi hasil kr lein gy, likin aik waqt aye ga jb aap kr nhi payein gy, kyunky apko bunayadi cheezon ki smjh hi nhi.
Tou pehly bunayadi cheezon ko smjhein, aur phir agay barhein.
Jaisa ky programming mein bhi aksar kaha jata hai:
“5 ghantay laga kr aap maslay ka hal nikal lein ya phir, aap 1 ghanta tasali sy beth kr usky banany walay ki kitaab parh lein.”
3. Har podhy ky phal (fruit) deny (bear) ka apna waqt hota hai.
Tafseel (Explanation): Meray parosiyon ky pass aik amrood (guava) ka podha hai, joky har saal phal deta hai, tou meri walida (mother) ny mujh sy poucha,
“Kya humaray podhy ky sath koi masla hai?”
Darasal baat ye hai ky, wo podha (meray parosiyon ka) takreeban 5–8 saal pehly sy laga hua hai, jbky meiny wo podha takreeban 1–2 saal pehly lagaya hai, tou meray podhy ko phal deny mein itna waqt tou lagay ga.
Humari zindagi bhi kuch aisi hi hai, hum khud ko dusron sy compare krty hain, unsy jo hum sy pehly sy kaam kr rhy hoty hain, aur kamyaab (succeeded) ho chuky hoty hain, unko dekh kr hum khud ko nikama (failure) feel krty hain. Jb ky aisa hargiz nhi hai, aap ny late start kya hai, ya phir aap apni kamyabi ki seerhi (ladder) charh rhy hai, apny waqt ky hisaab sy.
Parenting
- Har podhy ko aik jitny pani ki zarorat nhi hoti.
Tafseel (Explanation): Kuch aisa hi bachon ky sath bhi hai, kuch ko bohat zayada tawajah (attention) ki zarorat hoti hai, jb ky kuch ko thori tanhai (space) chahye hoti hai (jaisa ky, kuch podhon ko zayada pani aur km khaad (fertilizer) chahye hoti hai, and vice versa).
Jaisa ky meiny btaya, ye list khatam hony wali nhi. Ye waqt ky sath barhti rhy gi.
