Cacti don't get to pick their soil. No rich earth, no gentle rain schedule — just cracked ground and relentless sun, and somehow, still, a flower.
That's the whole point. Blooming where you're planted sounds nice. Blooming where you must is what actually happens — in the job that isn't ideal yet, the season that's harder than you'd like, the circumstances you didn't choose. You don't wait for better conditions. You grow anyway, thorns and all.
bloom where you must.
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