Seasons

Yeah! I saw and heard it again. This time around, it was more realistic than ever.
I have heard this from many men of God. However, it's never lasted long. It rang in my ears for few days and then departed. I thought they never understood what I was passing through. I felt that was why it was so easy for them to say such comforting words. But apart from hearing from these men of God, I have heard it from some of my friends as well.
Though they might have said it out of ignorance or because they were rooted in the waters where their branches are blossoming. Maybe they don't know what's up.
I thought these ones might be joking. Oh! Did they really understand? Awn! No, 'they didn't,' I concluded in my mind. I gave it a second thought.
How I wish these people understood what I mean or what I was going through. It was not about being inferior but the fact that I was doing my best but it seemed I was not doing anything at all. Oh! how painful that could be.
'Yeah! we started this thing together na, Bisi?,' I asked one of them one fateful day, and she was short of words because she didn't seem to grasp what was up with me.
You know what was more painful? Whenever I complained to people, they gave me these words I have heard over and over and this made me sick.
I became tired of these words that I stopped asking people for advice. I knew it will still be  'there is time and season for everything. Wait for your time' that they've always said.
These are words I got when I tried to complain what I tagged abnormalities in my life. Of course, I never it was normal.
What I just needed was to wait. The ab in 'abnormal' stands for "about" so abnormal means "about to be normal". Whoa! I never grasped that until I saw it real today.
As I passed by, I saw a tree I have been seeing since January in a different structure and appearance today.
The tree was dry while others were as fresh as they were from January till this early November.
Early November, the tree started bringing out flowers bit by bit and you need to see it today. The tree is more beautiful and attractive.
The sight of it is alluring and the fragrance that comes out of it is irresistible. It is not only beautiful in itself, it has spread it beauty to its surroundings and the whole place is lightened up with its brightness.
Yeah! Reality done on me when I saw this tree. It came to my subconsciousness what people have been saying about time and season. Truly, there is time and season for everything that exists.
Each one of us has his or her time. Don't ever compare yourself to others and never use another person's time to check yours. Never dance to another's drums because the two of you were not created to take same dancing steps. Wait for your rightful time so that your steps will go with the beat of your drums. There is time and there is season for each man. Walk and work with your time set.

©Linda Grace 2017
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