Throw back memories are always awesome when ever we remember certain events that took place years back especially when we were kids they are always fun and funny too. Many many years ago when we were still about 4 to 6 years old i could remember i and my brother asking our mum if we would ever grow big and tall like them?
I always thought that the elderly people were born big and kids like me were born to remain as kids haha.. it's funny because i never understood the concept behind growth not yet. But my mum didn't give me an answer to this question but rather she did something funny and mind-blowing.
Mum gave me and my brother 12 grains of maize 馃尳 to plant in the garden and we were very excited as kids to plant our very own corn and we wrote our names on a paper and placed it where we planted 12 grains of maize so that no one would step foot on it and kill our unborn maize in the soil.
I and my brother would carry two chairs to the farm and sit down to watch and monitor how our 12 seeds of maize would germinate from the soil right before our eyes. Sometimes we even dig up the seeds from the soil to check if they are still okay馃槅. When mum saw this, she would shake her head and beg us to go and sleep that the seed will only germinate if i and my brother would stop bothering them in the soil.
Few days latter one morning heaven blessed us and we saw some seeds that germinated out of the soil. I and my brother were so excited as if we just won money from a casino. One Hot afternoon the dun was burning like hell and when mum returned from the market immediately she stepped into the yard, she saw a bunch of umbrellas and her expensive wrapper covered in the garden then she asked why the umbrellas and her new wrappers were spread at the garden, i told her that todays sun is too hot and it might pop our new born maize in the garden hahaha馃槅... My mum was very angry and laughing at the same time because of the stupidity of these kids and her new wrapper in the farm, it was a mixed feeling of laughter and anger..
She told us that the plant needed the sunlight to provide food for itself, even tho we never knew the meaning of photosynthesis. This is how our corn grew and bare fruits the day we were about to cut the corn my mum called me and my brother and stood us infront of the maize that was about two times talker than us and said, "boys, growth is constant as long as you are alive and breathing you will continue to grow and may even grow taller that the ones who planted you."
Moral lessons: The sun light and heat that we were afraid of it killing the plants were the same thing as the challenges and tribulations we may face in life and this is what makes us grow.! I hope you are inspired by this little piece. Thanks for reading all through.
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