In the beginning of this month, we all went to Chennai for a week and no one was there to take care of watering the Thulsi plant in our house. When we returned, we found the plant was in bad shape, all leaves became dry and it was struggling for life. We started watering the plant and within next 3 days, the plant started coming back to life with new leaves coming out. I was watching the plant everyday morning and I could understand how human family life culture is developed by observing and taking lesson from nature. This particular Thulsi plant is having about 5 branches and 2 of them were in very bad shape when we came back on 9th morning.
Some of the thought process I had
Why plants in “Gamla” face this problem more compare to the plants that grow directly on the field? When I was in Cuddalore, we never watered the plants in the garden but they could survive on its own long time.
In a family, if one is always in a comfortable situation, he will find difficult to face any abnormal situation effectively
Problem occurred in this case and plant is forced to face such problem of not getting enough water for a week and it could not sustain and started loosing its leaves
In a family, if such problem comes, it is impacting the children first rather than a grown person
Some of the branches of the plant started loosing its position quickly than other part
Under one family, some of the family head is strong enough to withstand the situation than the weak family head
The stronger branch of the plant try to give back its strength to keep the weak branch live till the whole plant gets its need
The elder or the family head try to help and uphold the other family member till they recover
Even when all the branches could not sustain the problem, the root will still search for survival and once it gets a small help, it will start its life cycle again
Father and mother of the family will never give-up the life and will somehow find-out a way to bring back life to the family. Similar to plant, most of the time the sacrifice and life of family head is always under the carpet
In the plant, it may have different branches with many sub branches but entire plant or tree is identified uniquely as a whole and not differently by branches. Good or bad, it refers the plant or tree.
In a family, members may work and think differently but will be identified uniquely and as a plant or tree will be called as a good family or bad family
In a plant, one of the branches can not function separately as per its wish and can function only within its range and is having binding with entire plant. Within the range it can move here and there and is forced to give what it is suppose to give. It can de-associate itself only if it breaks and fell down.
In a family all members are bounded by family values and everyone contributes to their best to the benefit of the family without deviating from the common undisclosed understanding and developed values.
Whenever new branches come out, always it looks for higher growth and grows towards brighter world. A plant will never looses its height what it attained.
Next generation of the family always wants to have a better and brighter life and work for the same. Family also should not loose its credit and name it gained.
I saw even if half of the connection of a branch breaks from the main tree due to accident, other branches holds it as such till the time the broken branch manages to reunite itself with the main plant
I saw / seeing in many of our families, still people are ready to hand holds the needy brothers, sisters and others if they need any help in the event of crisis and to bring them up till they are capable to handle the situation on their own.
Our Thulsi plant survived now, in just matter of days care and we are happy to see it with all new small leaves coming out daily and spreading good fragrance around our house as our family !!!!!!
The binding within our family also will continue as the value of root given by our Father & Mother is still alive in our memory.
