Life is full of moments we can describe as high as low. Everyone goes through these moments. The street hawker and the company executive. School pupils and the teachers. The commoner and the politician.
Times like these are times when things don't go as planned. When it seems as though the whole universe has ganged up against you. When every step you take seems to move you five steps backward, and you're caught between staying stagnant and taking steps—that seem to take you backward. You wonder if there's a difference between backward and stagnant, in this ever progressing world.
They are times when you take arms against your sea of troubles and recieve the same blows from your own strike, as though you are the trouble itself. You're confused, the boomerang is deceitful.
They are times when the only option that seems to present itself, is to Quit. To turn around and take that exit. It is the decision to face the devil rather than the deep blue sea. All doors shut except the exit door. Everything you read spells "Quit ."
In times like these, what we need to do is relax, close our eyes, breathe and learn from the palm tree. The palm tree is a tree that is known to be very resilient. What are the qualities that the palm tree possess, that makes it so resilient?
Palm trees flourish in extremely hot climates. We need to be able to take the heat whenever life brings it to us. The palm tree doesn't quit by drying up. It adapts and stands till its over.
In times of drought and dry seasons, the palm uses its deep root system to search for water in the deep recesses of the ground. When other trees are drying up and dieing, the palm tree goes down in search of nourishment and survives. It never quits. It's roots are deep, its trunk is strong, it is flexible. How deep are your roots? How deep within can you go to find nourishment when life presents drought? You must be able to look within to find joy, happiness and encouragement when circumstances present reasons for it.
Like palm trees we must learn to be flexible during the storms of life. We must learn that even though we bend we must not break. The palm can bend and waver to and fro during a storm and an observer will consider it as weak, while other trees remain stout and rigid in the storm, but the palm still survives all of them. Why is this so? It's flexibility. In as much as we are not to conform to every situation we experience we must learn to adjust for every new situation.
We must learn to use the storms and heats of life to our benefits, like the palm. It faces a lot of hurricanes, monsoons and other types of storms yet its trunk grows stronger, taller and it become more beautiful.
We must master, just like the palm, tbe ability to bear fruit in and out of season, regardless of the weather conditions. Irrespective of the conditions of the outer circumstances we must master the ability to produce result.
Theses qualities that the palm poseses, explains the reason why it is used to symbolise victory, triumph and success because the palm goes through a lot of challenges, yet it comes out tops. Dear friends, what are you going through today? Look at the palm and learn from it. Quitting is not an option. Quitting is death. Just like the palm you must determine not to give up, not to cave in, not to quit, not to die, not to fail, until your job is done and the victory is won. Your job is to produce results.
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