🪣🦭 I has a bucket.
Dear god…
I don’t get it. Did the bucket become a planting pot?
The leaky bucket caused the row of flowers to grow.
Moral is something like, ‘even if you think you’re failing at a task, your benefit is simply not being measured / seen.’
Or you’re a failure. Both are possible options. It’s a nice story though.
Great. Now they’ll have to do more work to remove the flowers.
That is just way too subtle.
But flowers don’t come from water…
Flowers need water to grow, so if one side is dry and the other has water it would make sense for flowers to only grow on the wet side, right?
That little dribble of water isn’t going to be anywhere near enough water to germinate a seed.
It’s a fable…
It’s a bad comic
Then it’s a bad fable.
I think it watered the path back and grew flowers
nice
I also didn’t get it. Thank you folks for explaining it!
The difference of weight on each side would drive me crazy.
You can shift the pole on your back until it’s balanced.
Also the water is the vast majority of the weight
Flip sides to “even it out” throughout trips but then the dumb comic makes even less sense
What a pleasant response.
I’m agreeing with them? Lmao
Who needs disagreements when we have passive aggressive “agreements”
That’s exactly what I’m thinking lol
The folks in these comments mad they had to work to understand are cracking me up.
And yeah, it could be much better executed.
I didn’t get the message as well.
I think the big reason is the tree to the right obscuring the continuity from the pond to the house. Maybe the row of flowers continuing towards the pond’s edge (sans tree) would have made it more obvious.
Also because it shows her walking to the right then flips perspective and she’s on the left, confusing the viewer
This applies to ADHD as well: We might seem to be procrastinating, but i at least get a whole lot of stuff done during that “procrastination” period, such as reading unrelated wikipedia articles. I wouldn’t learn stuff if i didn’t do it because i’m procrastinating on something else.
I’ve got two words that I’ve coined that I use to describe this stuff.
“Para-productive” tasks are like what you describe. Usually procrastination related, but in a useful way. Examples might include tidying up my desk rather than starting the essay I need to do. For me, that kind of thing helps me to gear up towards the proper task. Random reading of fun stuff also helps me to focus better when I get onto the task. I find that I work best when I do a sort of task “circuit training”, where I have an array of tasks that I cycle between — and some of these tasks need to be fun for it to work.
“Psuedo-productive” is similar, except bad vibes. It is often associated with unhealthy avoidance towards tasks that I’m dreading, or an excessive level of procrastination. This word is mostly just to distinguish between the good and bad kinds of procrastination.
that’s very interesting. I’m gonna try to remember that “para-productive” term, it fits really well :)
What a charming story. There is much depth to it beyond the obvious.
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The drips coming out of the “broken” bucket watered the ground along the way. This allowed a path of flowers to grow that lead the way between the two spots.
The row of flowers escaped me for a minute
