Water Plant Memoir

After committing to live on my own in Los Angeles, it was clear it was time for me to set up the soul sista lounge. I'm the homiest traveler you'll probably ever know, and that's exactly why within a month of living in my studio, I had the space decked out with a palm tree, three pothos, an orchid, a few succulents, and a mini windowsill garden where I started growing plants and herbs - think the best organic cilantro you'll taste - from seeds.

In the process of growing and living with plants, I've observed them enough to pick up a few life lessons. I didn't realize how disconnected I was with nature, until I started having to water baby plants every day with a mister, and checking to see if any leaves had discoloration on my older plants.
Giving your new pet plant fresh soil will help it grow to its full potential. But plants aren't the only things that need soil flipping every now and then, we too need to refresh some things to fully thrive.

Recently I was talking to my friend about his failed romantic adventures. It's not just him, it's a common thing for us to find ourselves in circles of toxicity because of the people we have in our lives. I'm a firm believer that we have limited energy to spend on people and in return can either receive good things from that energy investment, or get screwed so we should cut our losses and move on.

Every so often I start noticing it's time to flip my soil to plant new seeds. Maybe that means a change of location, a change in diet and exercise, a new class, a new language, but something's gotta change to allow a trickle effect of other new things into your life.

Update your list of friends, go out with an open mind and put your willingness to invest energy in good people and things out there and it will come. Hell, try growing your own plants to see how your perspective changes.

It's amazing how nature has all the answers, if we look closely, we might just start figuring it out.