A number of you enjoyed my post on optimism earlier this week. So I thought I’d keep the theme going—after all, this blog is about noticing, reflecting, and sharing!
The seeds, when they gathered, all looked down—trying to find a clear patch of soil to settle on.
One, however, looked to the skies.
The others laughed.
“Where will you find a place to grow your roots,” they said.
“You’re destined to fail,” they chided.
The lone seed, against all odds, found a spot, in a gutter, atop an old church.
Again, the other seeds laughed.
“Why are you spending your time in the dirty gutter?”
“There’s no soil up there.”
“You’ll never grow into—or amount to—anything.”
But as the winter days passed, the lone seed put down its roots, committed to its new home, and when spring arrived, it’s flowers came into bloom, and it remarked:
“The view is so much better from up here!”
Photo taken of the lone seed, in the gutter, of the old church, near my home here in London.