What was your Palm Tree moment?

PALM TREE
 
When the Palm Tree
in our garden
was uprooted in a storm,
we were devastated.
 
It had stood so proudly there,
part of our family
and our family life,
for many years.
 
I borrowed my neighbour's chainsaw
to cut the fallen Palm Tree
into about 20 pieces,
so that I could clear the garden.
 
A couple of weeks or so later,
when I went to lift the pieces,
I found that they all had sprouted.
Each piece was a new Palm Tree!
 
I gave all of the pieces away,
(except one, see below)
to friends and family, and indeed
anyone who wanted a Palm Tree!

 The Palm Tree had come down
as a sign of what was to come.
For our biggest disappointment or failure
​in life, is our 'Palm Tree' moment.

It is the uprooting and dismantling
of what we were, to support 
the growing of all the new pieces,
that we are yet to become.

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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
1. Where or what was your 'Palm Tree' moment? 
2. How has your biggest diasppointment or failure enabled you to grow in new ways? ​

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Day 465 of Des McCabe's Personal Development Exercises

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