We Should Plant More Seeds

As a many plants grow, they create a seed or other carrier of young to spread elsewhere. These seeds become plants, and the process repeats itself. The old plants eventually die, and become food for the new plants. This is just a circle of nature. The natural process. Species come to prominence by climbing over the dead of other species. Civilizations come forth on the ruins of other civilizations. As any thing lives, it alters the entire environment around it, propogating ever outwards to new frontiers. I feel we as humankind should be planting more seeds. Not  in the form of reproduction, but in the form of deeds.

   'Once was given to me an apple red.

   As it fell down onto my head.

   I started walking on my way.

   Thinking about this apple every day.

   Decided what to do or not.

   Too distracted to notice the flesh rot.

   So I cast it out, thinking never again to see.

   But a few years later, I noticed the tree.'

   

Deeds I feel are powerful, they can, in a given instance, entirely reverse someone's perspective. A good deed can light a person's face or day, even in the presence of misery. A bad deed can possibly cause someone undue harm, and bring sadness into a happy world. But if you only think of the person immediately affected by a situation, you should spread your view. Deeds spread and propogate, echoing and rippling across all in contact with it. Just as a tree grows and drops new seeds, so too do actions replicate themselves.

Take for example, one bad deed. One bad deed can ruin a day for someone. But if you're not having a good day, you might be more likely to do something bad to someone else. This chain goes on, especially if the first wronged person wrongs more than one other. In this way, actions propogate, spreading to others and making those others more likely to do similar deeds. In a limited pool of people who can transfer this action, this means eventually, any bad deed done can, and usually will, return to you.

So I feel we should be planting more seeds, doing little good deeds throughout the day. For every deed you do, you make the recipient more likely to perform an act of kindness, or console a stranger, or actually be interested in another person's rambling... just to be nice. Not only does this make you feel good, but that good deed will echo through the hearts and minds of all those in proximity of it.

I'm not saying opening a door for someone is going to prevent them from going postal at work. However, if you consider this as a repetitively echoing process, eventually, even the tiniest good act can spread out and return to the same person many times, and many times of a small influence can indeed have quite an impact.