Garden Design Reminds Us to Set Life Boundaries
Before planting anything, garden designers always plot out where plants will go, anticipating their height, spread, and feeding needs at maturity. Designers have to ensure that plants will not choke out other plants, cast shadows that prevent growth in other areas, or completely overrun and takeover a space. They protect the plants by setting boundaries around them before putting them in the ground.
In the same way, we must set boundaries for ourselves. We must decide what intellectual, emotional, sexual, time, material, and physical boundaries we need and how we will:
Communicate our boundaries to others
Enforce our boundaries
Manage those people and things that take up more space than they should if left unchecked
It can be daunting to set boundaries in out personal lives, whether they are for others or ourselves. But a life without boundaries is like a garden choked by weeds, crammed with plants, and impossible to walk through. It’s a complete mess.
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