Daily Insight: Planting The Seeds

A good friend of mine and I were sitting around the pool soaking up the sun in Cabo San Lucas. We were talking our usual ish about relationships and what we were looking for at this point in our lives. She turned to me and said “When it comes to what I’m looking for in a mate, I’m a seed planter; I plant seeds and watch it grow.” It got me to ask the question to myself.

“Are you a seed planter Johnny Appleseed type, or are you more like Paul Bunyon in the hood looking to climb an already established tree?!” Now obviously I’m not talking evergreens literally here. For example are you the type to put a lot into a relationship or a person, and never really leave that person? Kinda dabble around here and there but you still watering that Charlie Brown ass Christmas tree. (If you’ve never seen a Charlie Brown Christmas tree please google it..it’s hilarious). You know you have it there so when you decide that this person has grown into what you’re looking for you set up shop under said tree.

Once upon a time I was all about planting the seed, finding a diamond in the rough, and molding said person into someone I could see myself with. These days, NOT SO DAMN MUCH. Not to say that I have a list of qualities that are set in stone like the 10 Commandments, but I honestly don’t have time to turn a hoodrat into a housewife.

I’m more or less looking to scale a full grown Seqouia, already established with some roots down. Some people like my friend are still willing to plant a couple of seedlings and see which one grows the fastest. So I challenge you to ask yourself are you a Johnny Appleseed type or are you not? Only tree I’m looking to plant is a money tree. As a wise man once said “I’m 23 with a money tree, growing faster now I just planted a hundred seeds.”

-Becks