🌱 What's the difference between being buried and being planted?

Good question, I thought. 🤔

A friend on mine was just celebrating his 50th birthday, and someone asked him this question. I don't know what his answer was - I'm still not sure what MY answer is.

But I've been thinking about it.

I think it has to do with the life-force we create from within ourselves.

Some seeds, when you plant them, take root and grow strong. 🌳

Other seeds, when you plant them, don't. Maybe they're already dead. Their mass is just get reabsorbed back into the earth, for the next successful plant to use. And in this, they give back.

So maybe it's about whether the thing that's put in the ground has what it takes, has the will and the resources, to make something of itself.

Or MAYBE (and this just came to me as I was writing this), maybe it has to do with whether it's a beginning or an end.

Being buried is the end of something.

Being planted is the beginning of something.

We all have times when a chapter of our life is coming to a close. It's often hard to remember in the moment, but those times are also the start of a new chapter. Sometimes several.

So even when we're being buried, we're also being planted?

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