Bird and plum blossoms </
"What does a scene of a bird nestled in plum blossoms, first to bloom after the cold, mean to say?"
📝ONGO's Reflection
This is plum blossoms and a bird painted by Hanabusa Itcho of Japan. The plum blooms first of all the flowers in early spring, when the cold has not yet gone. A bird flies to its branch and nestles there. Where it bloomed first by enduring the cold, life came first as well. In this I see the reward of stepping forward first. To begin ahead of others is lonely and cold. Yet as the bird nestles first in the flower that bloomed first, what comes that much sooner waits at the place that went ahead. The branch that endured the cold meets spring first.
🌱Apply It Today
When beginning ahead of others is lonely and cold, take that cold as the sign of a reward that will soon meet its spring.
