Tomatoes

Tomatoes. 🍅🍅🍅🍅

I read an article this week about a teacher and his students. I can’t give credit as I would normally do because it’s an unknown author.

The teacher invites his students to have a think about all the people in their lives that they hate, are anger with, they dislike, they resent, or at odds with. A few minutes later he invites his students to come and collect a tomato for each person on their lists. Some student collected multiple tomatoes. The teacher asked the students to share some of the scenario’s. Some of the scenarios had occurred many many years ago. In fact some students couldn’t recall the exact facts of the disagreement but all they knew they hated the person!!

The teacher told the students to take the tomatoes with them, these would be their companions for the next weeks.

After a few weeks they were asked to examine the tomatoes. These tomatoes had began to rot, there was a funky smell, the skins had spilt and they had become squashed and the insides on view. Some tomatoes had even started to grow an unsightly grey and powdery mould. At the end of the exercise students were only too pleased to discard the burden of these tomatoes. Some washed their hands to get rid of the stench.

Interestingly many of us carry around emotions of hate, dislike, anger and resentment. These emotions are like tomatoes they stay inside of us and begin to fester, rot and grow mould. Sometimes the person/s who represents the tomatoes are long gone, they don’t even know that they are a tomato in our lives!! In fact they are feeling nothing that we feel.

We can’t see the extent of the damage that these emotions are dong to our bodies especially after a long time. Some of us are sensitive enough to ‘feel’ our emotions and understand that something needs to be addressed.
Some people ‘feel’ something but don’t equate them to an old situation.

This week let’s all take steps to deal with the tomatoes, our emotions in our lives. Let’s forgive and ask for forgiveness. Forgiveness does not not mean forgetting.
Let’s connect with them, talk them through, seek help if we need too. Clean up, put them down, and finally let them go.

Some people are engaging in stoptober, giving up alcohol and cigarette. What if we gave up hate, gave up resentment and stop being anger towards others and ourselves??? By taking theses steps we can only feel lighter, cleaner, freer and empowered.

Food for thought peeps.
Have a super happy week.

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