The Rose That Grew in the Concrete

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's laws wrong it learned how to walk without having feet
Funny it seems but, by keeping its dreams
it, learned to breathe fresh air
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else even cared.
- Tupac

Some of us have been born in bad or hard circumstances. Others, when looking at our lives, don’t even know how we made it. When you have to go through many traumatic experiences, or have to go without something that some would say you need to have to grow up, you can come out with many scars. A rose that grows from a crack in the concrete may have tears and imperfections, but that’s what makes it beautiful. Though the rose isn’t perfect physically, it is beautiful because of it’s circumstances, or what the rose is. The rose is a rose that survived and successfully grew from a crack in the concrete. We are like this rose. Some of us may have our imperfections, scars, cheap clothing, little money, depression, post traumatic stress disorder, or we may be different in some way, but we are beautiful because of who we are inside, and what we have gone through. What we go through is just life’s way of making us beautiful. Our trials are our growth, and in the end, we will be beautiful like a rose. Never doubt yourself and never try to rush out of your problems. Don’t be afraid to handle your problems and to go through things that are hard. It isn’t a bad thing to go through things on your own time. You would never ask a rose but to bloom before it’s ready. We are all roses with different circumstances, and we are beautiful.

Today, acknowlege all the things that make you beautiful. What beauty and good do you bring into this world and how can you do more?