Gardening become part of my routine in our employers place. It's not actually my hobby before, I've never been into plants before I came here and work as a domestic helper.

Just recently I found myself so fond and so eager to make our flowering plants bloom, as if I was giving birth and moulding a child. One time as I was cutting some of the dried and old leaves in our indoor plants, something came across my mind, trimming is essential to our plants.

To encourage healthy growth and bloom of our plants we have to disregard those old and dried parts of it. Trees and plants are living entities, like humans, growth was part of their existence. Cutting trees from our forest is prohibited, they don't have to be trimmed in order to grow. They're free to play by their own rules. They can spread their limbs out, stretch as high as they want then let their weak and old limbs fall on the forest floor.

These unwanted things then turn into fertilizer that help them grow stronger. Forest trees is a good representation of adulthood in humans. Adults don't need anyone to trim and take out their unnecessary things in life. Like trees they do need to disregard those old and rotten baggage in their lives to go forward, but they can do it on their own. They're like forest trees, free to play by their own rules, and let go things when it has to.

It's ok when some of the leaves dried out or when we mess out into something, that's all part of us, mistakes . It's our choice if we'll trim that out of our lives and recreate into our life's fertilizer; that will be able to help us to grow as a human. Or let that rotten one stay with us, blocking growth to take place on us. The choice is ours.

Garden plants and indoor plants are way different, they're not as free as our forest trees. They need to be taken care of. We have to water and replenish them according to their needs, change soil, give fertilizer, and watch sun do its work.

We mould them the way we want them to grow. They have to look presentable so everyone will adore our place. There's no place for the dried and old leaves, so we trim and pick up their mess, we then recreate it into their fertilizer coz they can't do it on their own. These plants are like the children; adults – especially their parents – stand as their gardener.

They grasp and lean to the grownups; their growth depends on us. They have to be fed, to be loved, to be nourished. A child's understanding isn’t yet as complex as ours, their comprehension lacks in many aspects. When they mess up, we have to prune it out for them, and show them why it wasn't right.

Adults should acknowledge a child's mistake, because oftentimes they're unaware of it. A child's growth and behaviour is an adults responsibility. They are the gardener, and it's not just the mere duty – it's the dedication.

"Plants vs Humans"

It's not a battle but a comparison – both have to grow to survive.