A blooming cliché

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Letting things unfold.

Today is one of those spring days that fills you with positivity.

The sun is out.
The sky is blue.
Blossom everywhere.
Life feels good.

It’s also that time of year when social media suddenly fills up with talk of rebirth, renewal, and setting new intentions — you know, the kind of new-age cliché that can sometimes make the eyes roll.

Still, the other day I found myself listening to a very spring-cliché podcast… and annoyingly it did make me reflect.

It was talking about how nature unfolds at its own pace.

Nothing forced.
No anxiety about not yet flowering.
No frantic effort to speed things up.

Just happening when the time is right.

In my own life there are a few things I’m waiting to “flower”.

But here’s the thing. If I start fixating on that — why isn’t it happening yet?
What else can I do to make it happen?
I really want this to flower now.

Suddenly the mind fills with chatter trying to connect my reality to what I expect. The result, I fall out of now and into a fictitious world of which I have not control.

In yoga we talk about not becoming attached to the outcome.

Set the direction.
Take the action.

But don’t grip too tightly to what you think should happen.

Otherwise the mind runs ahead of life, leaving the present moment behind.

So perhaps the lesson — cliché or not — is this:

Take action.
Let things unfold.
Try not to force the flowering.

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