Writing for the internet has been my obsession for the last two years – I never thought twice about it when I first began in 2008 but understood that telecommuting (as cool as that word sounds) isn't all that great, as it has its own drawbacks as well. If you don't plan, you won't make much…
It's a tough game to be involved in, thanks to the overwhelming competition and the stupid reputation of Indians in this market. Right off the bat, when clients you work with abroad know you're an Indian, they make the generalization that you won't deliver on time or that your English sucks or even the fact that you are prone to scamming people for money.
(It might be true for the most part but isn't for so many of us who write for the online medium these days right from our very homes apart from our day jobs as well… but with all honesty!)
Mom and Dad always had wise words for me, when things weren't necessarily going my way as they used to say: "Everything takes time to grow."
Fast-forward to 2011, and they were right because some people I work with treat me very well! And I appreciate them for this… (Brandon is the first of the lot, BTW!)
Yeah, the analogy used, when taken in the figurative sense clearly implies that the way plants grow is slowly but surely!
How Do Plants Grow – Simple Facts
When you compare the plant species as a whole along with the animal kingdom, what is the first difference that you could possibly notice?
Plants can't move, right? This is their biggest limitation which not only allows them to be easy targets for species up the food chain but it also causes them to be very dependent on their surrounding environment to get nourishment for their growth.
Animals, on the other hand, can move around to catch prey which ensures that their chances of getting food is much easier, or they have to be less dependent on the environment to provide for them and more on their skills.
No matter how you look at it, it seems as if it's easier for plants to get this nourishment because they use the process of photosynthesis which combines light energy, CO2 and water to make food (sugars, actually) while giving out the proverbial life-giving oxygen as a "waste product".
Without this process in place, you can imagine what humans would do with all that carbon-di-oxide in the atmosphere, and we have the plant species to thank for that because they're vital to the survival of the planet (the human species) themselves.
Anyways, these sugars are stored away, and the plants prepare and savor their meals time and time again, and which helps them to grow (much like my freelance writing projects) ever so slowly…
Yet instead of focusing on the plant species on the planet, ecologists are concerned with the rapidly disappearing species of animals on the planet instead of worrying about how forest depletion (read as: the Amazon) might affect as a whole.
In Closing
And just as plants, animals and humans all need each other to survive… I still think that without plants (and the process of photosynthesis), the other two's chances of survival can be likened to a snowball's chance in hell! And somewhere on this planet, Poison Ivy smiles…
