Have you ever noticed a Pioneer Plant?
That plant that sprouts up, despite all odds, winding their roots through concrete and stone, only to grow up tall and strong in a parking lot or the middle of your drive way.
That plant, is doing something that other plants are not.
It’s standing out.
It’s trailblazing.
How is it rewarded?
What fruit does it bear?
It’s plucked, stripped, cut, or covered.
That’s what.
By you. By me. By everyone.
If that is the steady, reliable, result of a pioneering plant. Why should you and I be surprised when the same thing happens to us?
“You’re not supposed to be here.”
“That’s just not how it’s done.”
We get cut down, dressed down, pushed down… and yet, what then?
If whatever your creative outlet is was easy, it wouldn’t be special.
It wouldn’t be worth the fight.
But it is. It has to be.
Einstein’s quote about the definition of insanity is, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Be insane.
Be crazy.
Keep sprouting.
Not because your a masochist, but because pioneer plants crack concrete.
They disrupt foundations.
And they to all of it, standing tall, reaching for the sun.
Even the Colossus of Rhodes eventually fell… but when Chares of Lindos sculpted it, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World wasn’t a club he was looking to join.
The laurels and accolades and rates, are temporary.
Art endures.
So should you.