This sort of relates to math in the way that your neighbor was trying to teach you and help you, but at first you didn't want or didn't care for the extra tips. But after a few days or weeks, you decided (consciously or subconsciously) to take her advice, and it would help you out in the long run, because the roses would come back. This is kinda like me and math because last year I started to fall behind, and my teacher told me to come in, come in, come in and we can work on it! When I finally set up a weekly time to work with her, she was considering to move me down to the lower math. However, I came back strong, like the roses, this year and I'm ready to learn :)