048 Carry Your Start
Hey Coconut, you set out to sea with your own water and food sealed inside, and you can take root on a shore far from home.
Who leaves home carrying everything they need to start again?
What do you carry that could help you start again anywhere?
A ripe coconut falls on the beach. A high tide carries it away, out to sea.
Somewhere down the coast, it washes up, and a green shoot pushes out of the husk.
What really happens
A coconut is a seed with its own water and food sealed inside, wrapped in a thick husk that floats.
It can drift on the sea and take root on a shore far from home, using its own stores to grow its first leaves.
How we know: Botanists describe the coconut's floating husk and food store; how far coconuts really travel by sea is still debated, so we give no distance.
The turn
Life sometimes carries us far from home.
What helps us root again is what we carried inside: skills, values, a little saving, faith.
Three takeaways
- Pack what you will need inside you.
- Your stores travel with you.
- A new shore can become home.
Carry your start with you.
The learned make each land their own, in every city find a home.