70° 📐

70° 📐

When you're growing as a person, you don't exactly know in which direction you are growing at the moment. You can only tell after a certain period of time when you can look back and see the path that you've been traveling on. Then you can connect the dots.

When you've grown into a certain direction, it's also hard to change that direction. Since you've already been reaching out for a certain direction, you will now be far away from all the other outcomes your life could've had. But you can still make changes.

What I'm thinking about when I see this tree, is that all the branches have gone in separate directions, but the trunk of the tree is clearly also pointed in a direction.

Maybe this applies to life as well: in my case, the main field I chose to be in is music. But I'm expanding myself now in other ways as well, like writing this blog, for example, teaching guitar, or drawing. I used to think that these other "expansions" would get in the way of growing my main "trunk" if you will, but now I'm starting to see that I also need those separate branches to grow my tree, so the tree can grow more centred and in balance.

These trees are standing close to the sea, so they have probably grown so crooked because of the strong wind. But that doesn't mean they are about to fall over. I guess it probably means they are extremely strong because they had to withstand so much wind.

This is also a lesson I've always found hard to see. The more adversity and failure you encounter in your life, the stronger you will grow in that particular area. You need it to grow the strength of character. Failure always sucks in the moment, but when you look at it later you will see the benefit it had on your growth.

So don't be fooled if someone looks a little bit crooked or messed up on the outside, like this old tree that is at about a 70° angle compared to the ground. It could also be a strong person with experience on the inside. Just like the tree with a strong trunk that had to fight against the wind to survive. #dailyblogger