Everything Is Beautiful in Its Time

📝Reflection

I read this verse this way — everything, without being dragged forward, grows beautiful when its season arrives. As we do not blame an unripe fruit, we need not be impatient for our own completion not yet come. At the same time, the Preacher sees in the human heart "a longing for the eternal." This contradiction — craving eternity while living in impermanence — is the very human condition. The Buddha saw this longing too, and said to find its answer in this present moment. Eternity is not some distant day; it alights briefly within a today that has arrived in its own time.