On Blooming Late

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Enjoy! - Johanna.

Us humans are weird. We love to have little concepts and categories for everything - even those things that defy categorization, like the timing of one’s life.

Someone’s a prodigy. Another person a late bloomer.

30 under 30 or nothing over 40.

As if there was a right and a wrong time to flourish as a person.

As if there was a standard timing for the unfolding one’s life.

When you look to nature, everything has its time. Everything happens in its own time, exactly as it needs to. Some flowers bloom in April, some in fall. It adds to the richness of our experience of nature. Imagine a September without flowers!

So, why not for people?

Instead of the speed of precocity or the unglamorous delay of late blooming, the real tragedy is to never find one’s flourishing, at all.

Here’s to blooming in your own time.

Have a lovely weekend,

Johanna

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