Thorns For Growth.

Thorns For Growth.

Do you have a favorite chair or enjoy just lounging on the couch? It’s comfortable. It’s relaxing and it even becomes hard to move from that spot unless it’s something super important. That place of comfort is good to have. Nothing but rest comes from that place of comfort. 

Imagine sitting each day in that chair to the point where all you wanted to do was sit in the chair. The comfort has lead to complacency. 

But imagine that one day, from sitting so long, the seat grew thorns. The comfort that lead to complacency has now changed. Now we have to move into action. No longer comfortable In the old seat, we have to create a new place for comfort. 

Celebrate the thorns. If we were not made uncomfortable then we would still be in the chair. If not for the thorns we would have never been moved to create the next chair. Without the thorns we would still be sitting comfortable. But comfort is not the way to progress. New ideas come when we are made uncomfortable. When our old ways don’t work we have to create new solutions. Maybe we are only uncomfortable until we build a new seat, but that’s growth. We saw the process of the last chair now, instead of growing complacent in comfort of the current chair, we plan for the next. We find a balance between enjoying the seat and creating the next. Now we don’t wait for the thorns to move, we move when the next chair is ready. 

Enjoy the thorns for they are sign that we have been sitting to long. Embrace the thorns because they force us to move. Understand the thorns didn’t come simply for pain, they came so the pain would make you move. 

The thorns are meant to grow you. Like a baby cries until the dirty pamper is changed, let the thorn that makes you uncomfortable move you to change. Thorns for growth. 

Love. 

Akeem Springs