Planting!

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to say how much excited I am to see my tomato flowered. I don’t want to talk about my orchid either. Even though its yellowish leaves are making me very concerned. I want to talk about planting in minds. To be more specific, about planting in my advisors’ minds. It is harder than you can imagine.

Students’ minds, especially youths’, are like a plowed field. It is ready, or at least eager to become ready, and receive the seeds. The seeds grow and you can see the fruit and feel proud of your students. Some fruits are larger, some smaller. Some wormy and some quality. But, planting in advisors’ minds is like planting in a stiff soil, if not like in a rock! Sometimes you prefer to leave the seeds on the ground and forget about harvesting. You give in. Some Other times the issue is important and you spend weeks to persuade your advisors eventually.

The tragedy is that when the seeds fruit, they don’t remember your planting, especially if you had left the seeds on the ground. They have enough confidence and experience to make others impressed by their talks. But nobody knows how tough it was to plant in a stiff farm!