Figs

In the Alchemist, Paulo Cuelo tells us “when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it”.

In 2012 my co-parent and I planted a fig tree, watered it, and hoped for figs. Year after year we watched it grow, but no figs ever ripened. One week ago, after waiting eleven years, we finally harvested our first basket of sweet figs.

Sometimes we humans are certain the world has forgotten about our hopes. So much time passes after we make our wish, that we ourselves often forget we even wished. We might even learn to stop wishing, and resign ourselves to a less than magical existence. All the while, the world doesn't stop working to give us what we need. Maybe it just takes time. If we wait, and remember, and then we look around with open hearts, we might see our most beautiful desires birthed right before our eyes.