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holyspiritomb authored Jan 17, 2025
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Genuine human connection requires sustained effort and is something absolutely everyone has to work at. No one is immediately good at being genuinely vulnerable. Making every relationship transactional (as an extreme workaholic inevitably does) is easy; genuine human connection is hard. Genuine connections are challenging by necessity—challenging yourself is the only way to grow as a person.

Tomato plants only produce their best fruit in partial sunlight or shade, when watered every other day. In order to grow woody vines that can support their fruits without bending or collapsing, tomato plants must struggle. In order to grow or develop at all, we, like tomatoes, must also struggle, or we will never savor the fruit of genuine connection with others&emdash;if a tomato plant's vines are not made strong enough by struggle, any nascent fruits will droop to the ground and be lost before they ever had a chance.
Tomato plants only produce their best fruit in partial sunlight or shade, when watered every other day. In order to grow woody vines that can support their fruits without bending or collapsing, tomato plants must struggle. In order to grow or develop at all, we, like tomatoes, must also struggle, or we will never savor the fruit of genuine connection with others—if a tomato plant's vines are not made strong enough by struggle, any nascent fruits will droop to the ground and be lost before they ever had a chance.

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