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+title: "Daily Blog: Growth"
+permalink: "/growth"
+description: "Healthy growth is always bi-directional."
+keywords: ""
+image: "trees"
+image-attrib: "Some trees in Los Baños, Philippines"
+---
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+Have you ever planted a tree? I have not had the opportunity, but that is something I want to do.
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+I want to have a backyard with trees I planted myself.<!--more-->
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+Notice how good, healthy trees grow? They usually go upward seeking the rays of the sun.
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+But what's not so obvious is that underneath, the roots also grow, crawling outwards seeking more nutrition from the soil.
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+## Grow Like Trees
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+We should grow like this too. Not just in appearance, but also in depth.
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+There is more to us than the physical self and the outward public performance we portray.
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+Emotionally, mentally, spiritually, we need to always seek to grow.
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+And in our relationships, it is better to seek more depth rather than shallow popularity.
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+This is quite challenging when popular culture aims to measure us in the number of followers and likes.
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+## Back to Basics
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+Any life form exhibits some form of growth. Indeed, the proof of life is growth.
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+Can you really say you are alive withouth growth?
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+In the movie Shawshank Redemption, Andy Dufresne said this line to his fellow inmate Red:
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+> "Life comes down to a simple choice: You're either busy living or busy dying."
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+My hope is that you choose to live intentionally.
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+Choose life. Choose growth.