Rose lives on....

The gist of this post is that we all have a survival instinct, no matter what is thrown at us.

This is the story about the rose flower shown in the picture below. I once had 3 rose bushes planted in my flower bed. They all thrived and produced beautiful flowers every year but two years ago, they got infested and began to lose their beauty. At this point, I began to pay more attention to them much more than any other plant in my flower bed. I treated and fed them regularly but to no avail. This I did for a whole year and instead of getting the results I was looking for, these rose bushes just kept dying. I got fed up last year and I uprooted them all. I didn't stop there; I poured Weed B Gone on every weed including the spot where the rose bushes used to be just to make sure they were all killed to their roots. Needless to say, I gave up on them.

Earlier this week, looking out the window, I saw something red on my flower bed and upon taking a closer look; it was a lone rose bud sticking out from the spot where one of the bushes used to be. It survived.

I think the lesson in this is that, we may get ugly, sometimes undesirable, and yes, things may not work out just the way we want when we expect it, and of course, people may give up on us and write us off….but it doesn't mean we’re finished.

We can rewrite our own story, again, and as many times as it takes, even in a more poignant and inspiring manner because of the survival instinct inherent in all of us. A lesson from the story of this rose is that, we can fend off whatever rough treatment we’re getting from whomever by the determination to survive and be successful.

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Ade