It’s fascinating and inspiring to watch a bud mature into a flower.
It’s a process of unfolding and unfurling. The tightly packed young petals expanding and unwinding as they grow opening up to reveal the flower in all its glory.
From a certain perspective the flower is there already in the small green bud, it’s future path laid out before it. It’s fate, it’s destiny, to become a very particular type of flower, even if it’s individual uniqueness will be determined by an innumerable complex of factors…time, place, climate, weather events, insects and chemicals, natural and manmade in the environment, human hands…..
It’s a beautiful phenomenon. This interplay of the past, the present and the future, bringing into reality a specific creation, a unique single “actual” from the “multiplicity of singularities” of possibilities.
It’s just as beautiful in human beings. Watching the newborn child unfold his or her character, unfurl his or her body, as they grow, develop, mature into the fully expressed uniqueness they are in the universe….it’s awe inspiring.
It inspires me to open, to spread my wings, to choose growth and development, to express the uniqueness that is me.
I hope it does exactly the same for you.
Heroes Not Zombies 
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