15 for 15 Contest --- Closed

I grow my green things in the glass house. Mostly it's carrots and potatoes, stuff like that. I also have onions and peas. And of course what garden is complete with out a few strawberry bushes and towers of purple haze, a nice bit of OG kush.

It's nice to be able to produce your own food, harvest your own weed. You can offer people a baby carrot and give them a little story about how you grew it. About how it's organic. People like that. People like to know what they pack in their bongs. It makes for a better high I think, a cleaner high.

You get to feel closer to the earth, ya know? I love the smells too. Damp soil fills my nostrils while I go about my business. It makes me happy. And when I'm happy my plants are happy.

Had a copper call round the other day, said he heard about what I was growing. He left with dark circles under his eyes and a kilo of broccoli. Hi wife is sick, can't take the crap the sell on the streets. And he was really grateful. It was weird, a grateful cop.. didn't think they existed. But I guess I can be every bit as narrow minded in my perceptions as other people can.

My friends have all moved on. Grown up. Gone on to become doctors and lawyers and accountants and all sorts of other boring shit. They ring me up sometimes looking for fresh parsley or whatever. And they ask how I am, and I can't help but detect a certain tone, a certain something. Call it condescending? Sure why not, lets call it that. But I've also noticed that I feel nothing but sorry for my professional friends.

There's a quote by Oscar Wilde that keeps me warm at night, when doubt creeps in.

"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”

I inhale deeply and I realise I'm very glad to be who I am.