{"id":390,"date":"2021-06-27T14:28:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T14:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2021-12-29T21:38:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T21:38:07","slug":"where-you-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Where You Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a natural inclination to scoff at platitudes. I acknowledge this and truly try to check my attitude when I see inspirational memes or images. I know these can bring comfort, joy, and encouragement to many. However, words matter to me to a great extent. Carefully chosen words can enlighten, inspire, and uplift. Poorly chosen words can foster discord, confusion, and pain. <br>Recently, I keep encountering a particular &#8220;inspirational&#8221; phrase that resonates discordantly within me. The phrase &#8220;Bloom where you are planted&#8221; appears in happy script above a beautifully flowering plant. On the surface, I agree with the concept of perseverance, thriving amidst circumstances, and finding peace, joy, and success where you are. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\u2026you are not a plant. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You have legs. If you find yourself in soil that poisons instead of feeds you, move. Change your environment. Be a little selfish. Because no matter how much nature wants to survive, not all plants are suited for all environments. Anyone who has nurtured an orchid, a succulent, roses, or any number of particular plants knows that you cannot treat them all to the same light, water, and soil conditions. But you, my dear, are not a plant. You have autonomy. You have the ability to move yourself, literally and figuratively. You have the wide world at your doorstep. So instead of blooming where you&#8217;re planted, seek and build an environment where you can thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Flower3-LC-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Flower3-LC-819x1024.jpg 819w, http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Flower3-LC-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Flower3-LC-768x960.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Flower3-LC-370x463.jpg 370w, http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Flower3-LC-1040x1300.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a natural inclination to scoff at platitudes. I acknowledge this and truly try to check my attitude when I see inspirational memes or images. I know these can bring comfort, joy, and encouragement to many. However, words matter to me to a great extent. Carefully chosen words can enlighten, inspire, and uplift. Poorly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","category-uncategorized","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lonelycloudphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}