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Good Things Take Time

We live in a world where everything happens instantly. You can order food and have it at your door in 30 minutes. You can message someone across the world and get a reply in seconds. You can search for any answer and find it immediately. But some things in life don't work that way. The truth is, we're so used to instant results that we forget how real growth actually works. We forget that most meaningful things take time. Seeds don't become trees overnight. Skills aren't mastered in a day. Dreams don't come true the moment you wish for them. Some moments in life test us not by action, but by waiting. When we have done our part—studied, worked, and hoped—the only thing left is patience. And though waiting feels powerless, it is often the moment when the most important growth is happening beneath the surface. Today, I want to share a simple story about two farmers that changed how I think about waiting. The Story The first farmer plants his seeds and immediately start...

The Moon in the Well

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One starry night, when the full moon was glowing brightly in the night sky, an old man walked to the village well to fetch some water. As he peered into the well, something unexpected caught his eye. He froze in place, staring down into the water. His heart skipped a beat. "Wait... is that the moon? It’s fallen into the well!" he thought, completely bewildered. Without a moment’s hesitation, he ran home to grab a rope and a hook, determined to rescue the moon and put it back in the sky. "The moon belongs up there, not stuck in some well," he mumbled to himself as he hurried back to the water’s edge. Carefully, he lowered the hook into the well, confident that he was about to save the day. The hook caught onto something, it was a large stone at the bottom of the well but to him, he thought it was the moon.   He began pulling with all his strength. "This is one heavy moon," he thought, straining as hard as he could. He pulled and pulled, but it just wouldn’t...