Can’t or Won’t?
Written on June 3, 2008
This is an interesting story.
Well, I admit that I don’t find gardens particularly interesting. It does tickle my fancy, however, that a story about elevated gardens is actually about low-hanging fruit.
The story is a valuable reminder that there are a great many things which we won’t do or simply don’t do; great ideas left unimplemented because we’re too lazy, too busy, too comfortable or too ignorant to implement them.
Of course, sometimes we’re just being efficient: picking only low-hanging fruit until circumstances force us to strive somewhat harder.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” may save us from the pain of unnecessary change, but it binds us to the pain of living in inferiority.