For the last couple of weeks, I kept thinking about planting a tree. It is something I had never done before, but at some point in life, there are things people say you should experience at least once. Read the book. Plant the tree. Take the leap. Complete the bucket list from beginning to end.
So I thought, why not try a papaya tree?
I worked with the seeds, dried them, moved them around, waited until I believed they were ready—according to Google and according to hope. Today I opened a small space in the dirt, placed the seeds inside, covered them, watered them, and now I wait.
Planting a tree feels like many things in life.
You place something small into the unseen. You care for it before there is proof. You protect it while it is fragile. You trust the process before results appear.
Raising children can feel this way. You plant values, guidance, love, discipline, kindness, and wisdom into them day after day. You hope those seeds grow into roots strong enough for life’s storms and branches gentle enough to offer shade to others.
Relationships can feel this way too. Trust is planted slowly. Respect is watered consistently. Love needs sunlight, patience, and care. Neglect can dry it out. Harm can poison the soil.
And character may be the deepest garden of all.
The way you treat people is often the way life returns itself to you over time. Kindness tends to echo. Respect often circles back. Decency leaves seeds in places you may never see.
But cruelty also grows. So does selfishness. So does stepping on others for personal gain. Some people spend years planting weeds and later wonder why peace never blooms around them.
Maybe life is always asking the same question: What are you planting today that you expect to harvest tomorrow?
Maybe Wave 19 is about realizing that every choice is a seed that grows silently—and in time, the ground always answers.
-TodayWaves
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