Hatch and Bloom: Thriving Metaphors
I’ve been reflecting about what it means to really thrive in life, and how this fits with the metaphors of hatch and bloom.
When a chick hatches from an egg, it has no idea what it’s getting into. Its whole world has been a sphere and it seemed plenty big. But when the egg cracks and light comes through, it’s a whole new world that could never have even been imagined before. Sometimes in life we reach these stages that we never could have fathomed before. Where in your life has this happened?
When a flower blooms, a bud has something inside that any outsider could never imagine was within it. It opens up and surprises everyone with its beauty. It was in it all along, it just wasn’t ready yet. Eventually, it opens up and reveals what was always there.
When you think about it, an egg hatches in part because its mother sits on it and warms it until the baby chick is big enough to poke through the egg. Similarly, the flower blooms in part because of the sun absorbed through its leaves, and the water that reaches it through the soil. Neither the chick nor the budding flower are growing completely on their own. They’re a part of a larger system or universe. So are we.
How about that?