February 7, 2020

Plant Life

On my last day of my old job, I emptied my office of everything except a huge plant. The plant had been a gift from my colleagues to mark my 20^th year of sobriety.  Twelve years later, it took up a third of the room.  Ms. Rella said I should drag it outside, kids could build a tree house in it. The Other Ken said I should sell it to a lumber yard.  Max The New guy offered a scheme involving flooding the floor and waiting for beavers to take it. They were exaggerating, but only a little.

I put the plant in the lobby.  I hadn’t done much more than water it, and the plant had tripled in size. I thought of all the people I knew who were looking for great insight or waiting for some major event to change their lives.  They could learn a lesson from the plant, growing a little each day.

Today I will grow a little.

2020 Vision ©2017 by Ken Montrose

2020 Vision is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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