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Illustration: A small mango tree seedling in a clay pot on a sunny wooden porch next to a fully grown mango tree heavy with fruit.

Patience

Good things grow in their own time.

We plant something and then check on it every hour. Why isn't it growing? Did I do it wrong?

But mango trees take years. So do careers, friendships, healing, trust and most things that matter.

Patience isn't doing nothing. It's watering faithfully even when nothing seems to change. It's trusting the roots you can't see.

If you're waiting on something good right now, keep tending it. Some harvests are worth the years.