Vegetation is good January 19, 2009

Remember when in high school we were learning about beans’ growing? At biology, they would ask us to put a bean on a water soaked cotton piece and place it somewhere warm. After some days of waiting we would see an embryo. Those days of waiting were called vegetation.

In Romanian “vegetation” has a bad connotation – the same as “to be a parasite”, “to loose time” etc. Therefore…not useful.
But I am going to contradict the public opinion in this post. Actually this is my dareberry for today – “Vegetate and grow an embryo!”

The thing with vegetation is that the environment has to be suitable for that bean to grow an embryo at the end of that number of days. There are also beans that never grow an embryo, even with a suitable environment.

What I did, was to take 3 days away, put myself in a “boring” environment, where friends were only in the address book of my mobile, and they were staying there, get myself on a “no-news diet”, have the meals of my dreams (in my case low-fat, no pork kind of thing), find a familiar and comfy room and just lay there. I watched some movies, played some computer games, read something…in one word: “vegetation”.

Now vegetation is over and when I woke up today I felt different. It is also the subconscious “Monday, a good day for big things”, but sometimes this wasn’t enough. I grew a small plant:). I am full of energy and working enthusiastically on several projects thanks to the vegetation period. It helps clean your mind. Not, clear your mind, but literally clean your mind.

…or you might hate it so much that as Bomberman says “You can go outside and play now”, you will run away from anything like vegetation and do the extreme opposite, which is also great:).