Flourishing Like a Palm Tree
The upright flourish like the palm tree, and grow tall like a cedar of Lebanon.
Do I want to be a tree that grows fast, or one that stands long?
📝Reflection
The poet chose the palm and the cedar — both not fast-growing trees but slow and long-living ones. A cedar can live a thousand years. This image says quietly that true flourishing is not speed but endurance. In youth my heart was taken only with growing fast; I thought getting ahead of others was success. But a tree that shoots up quickly falls quickly. Only a life rooted uprightly, slowly, and deeply withstands the winds of the years. That merely standing long is itself a kind of greatness — this I learned only with age.
🌱Apply It Today
Look again at one thing you are rushing to achieve today, through the eyes of "lasting long beats growing fast."
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
