The Law of the Farm


Some students got through school through cramming, after failing to prepare or prepared poorly for exams, they lock themselves a day before the exam and try to cram stuff into their head.  Then, when they get to the exam hall  they just...."La cram, LA pour".

But something life has got to teach us is that, we cannot cram our way through  life.

Imagine a farmer tries to "cram" through the farming process. He isn't cultivating the land early, neither is he planting the seeds early. When he needs to harvest crops someday, he will "work overnight" the day before; clearing the farm land,  planting the seeds, adding fertilizers, watering and waiting to harvest bountifully when it's dawn.

You and I know the farmer is headed for failure. But this is the same approach most of us follow in our daily lives.

Like in a farm, cramming doesn't work in a natural system.

What about character? Can you "cram" and suddenly become a better person overnight?

Ooh, what of marriage? Is "cramming" allowed too? Many married people don't want to change their lifestyle at all. Stephen Covey calls them "married singles", yet they want to "cram" and change their spouse overnight.

We cannot also "cram" through our relationships, we can't expect our friends to trust and value us overnight. Quick fixes doesn't work in relationships. You cannot command two people to love and trust each other. These feelings develop from constant deposits into the "Emotional Bank Account" and not through "cramming".

We may be able to get instant results through quick fixes with a feeling of apparent success, but the good things of life take time to achieve. The Law of the Farm rules our lives.

As Dr. Sidney Bremer observed in one of his writings:

"Nature is evenly balanced. We cannot disturb her equilibrium, for we know that the Law of Cause and Effect is the unerring and inexorable law of nature; but we do fail to find our own equilibrium as nations and as individuals,  because we have not yet learned that the same law works as inexorably in human life and in society as in nature - that what we sow, we must inevitably reap".

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