Lessons from Plants
Lessons from plants I have recently found several articles that talk about the Chinese Bamboo tree. Simultaneously I’m reading Braiding Sweetgrass and it discusses how humans can learn lessons from plants. We just have to tap into mother nature and take the time to listen.
When growing sweetgrass there is a symbiotic relationship. By cutting down sweetgrass and regulating its growth, it allows for new sweetgrass to grow more abundantly. The sweetgrass to keep from growing extinct, requires the work of human hands to remain abundant.
The Chinese Bamboo tree can offer us a similar lesson. High maintenance, it requires years of nurturing daily by human hands to finally see growth. However, once it breaks the surface it grows at record speed.
The Lessons
The lessons I take from both of these stories is that our own personal growth requires the same patience, nurturing, love, environment, and the symbiotic relationship of those in our circle. We often don’t see our own personal growth on the day to day. Much like we don’t see our child growing quite like everyone else does. One day they are small and it seems in a moment they are big.
I am certainly not the person I once was. And I am grateful for that. But sometimes I have to slow down and reflect on the growth I have made. All the little changes and lessons I have accumulated along the way that have changed the way I react, the way I behave, the way I think, and the things I value.
If you have a goal or something you are trying to overcome or shift in your life, it won’t happen overnight. Take the lesson from the plants. You will need people in your corner, you will need to be uplifted and held at times, you will require food, water, and sleep, you will need to love yourself through the process, and you will need to be supremely patient.
Grow
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