Sunday Poser #236 – Common Sense

Published on by Yinglan

Do you think that most people possess common sense- or to quote Voltaire- “Common Sense is not so common”?

Have you ever done anything that makes you look bad- like lacking common sense? Or are you the rare person who always makes the right call? Do share your story and thoughts.

The words – common sense – have been thrown around a lot lately, at least under my household. My mom accuses, “People around the world have lost their minds. Does anyone have any common sense anymore?”

To me, common sense is relative and yes, I do agree with Voltaire. Common sense is relative from person to person. One’s common sense may be crazy to others. I wonder if there are anyone out there who thinks otherwise.

I can’t say I’m the “rare person who always makes the right call,” because I don’t think this person even exist in the world. We are humans. We are flawed. We don’t always make the right call but for some lucky souls, matters always sort itself out.

My mom often accuses me of lacking common sense for spending so much money on my garden. “Stop buying garbage!” That was what she had said the last time I received an Amazon package delivery on the front stoop. It was shade clothes for the garden.

“Why are you growing so much vegetables when we can just get what we need at the grocery store?” She also likes to say, “Stop growing so much vegetables, we can’t eat it all!”

Yet, here we are, first week of June and we are running of vegetables because my mom has been harvesting faster than the plants can grow.

Maybe I do look lacking in common sense to others for growing food when there are stores within a 5-minute drive from my house but I don’t think I’m lacking in common sense for growing food because of the fact that I know what I’m putting in the soil. No herbicides nor insecticides nor any sort of chemical.

To me, it makes sense to grow my own food because not only do the food taste better, I have this piece of land, I would be pulling weeds either way, why not get a reward of homegrown strawberries after?

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16 thoughts on “Sunday Poser #236 – Common Sense”

  3. I’m glad you do grow veg. at home. They do taste better. I wonder too, why people have huge grass lawns they have to mow. No one goes out there, so why not just plant veg. or flowers to enjoy. 🙂

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      1. I know. I had a divergent mother too. She spent her life telling me I was pure stupid. Then she died. Long years later my sisters told me how she loved my long letters that I wrote after leaving home. How she started reading the books I wrote about. How she inspired my sisters to read.
        Her letters to me were two very small pages with half used for her address and the second page only half used. All she wrote was about her cleaning of the house. “I washed the windows – I defrosted the fridge”.

        I thought she could not have read the 8 long pages I wrote, double sided. In lovely ink.
        But, there you go. And guess who sat three weeks with her before she passed? Every time she woke up she said, “Thank you for coming. I love you.”
        Did she know it was me? Dunno.

        As a mother I have hurt my children with some of my reactions to life in general but at them in fact – only later we find out what it meant to them. I thought they understood me, but they didn’t then. We are good together, but I know I hurt them at times now because they told me when they had the occasion to do so.
        That’s why I say I am sure she’s proud of you.
        We were patented too by divergent parents and so much is our programming. We don’t mean to hurt our children. Most of us anyway.

        Maybe one day you will have occasion to talk to your mom about this, but only you will know when the time is right.
        I never told my mother.
        But that you honour her the way you do is the most noble thing to do. Things will go well with you just for that reason.

        I’m very proud to know you. I think you are exceptional! Mothers’ complaints are just static. See through it.
        Much love to you.

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  6. Just got warm enough to plant the first tomatoes here. Considering the short season, cost, and the potential for it to become little more than a feast for the local wildlife, I’ll confess that it’s not something I do each summer for the return on financial investment. But it’s certainly a pleasant greeting when going into the back yard, whether with a coffee or with a salad bowl.

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    1. Well, I can’t speak for those in your situation but when the condition is right, I don’t see the reason of having a lawn full of weeds than having a yard full of food.

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