I came across these mushrooms during my walk yesterday morning.
What caught my attention wasn’t just the mushrooms… it was where they were growing… out of an old, dead tree stump.
And I found that strangely beautiful. The tree may have finished its life as a tree… but it clearly hasn’t finished contributing to the world around it. What once stood tall is now becoming a place from which something else can grow.
It got me thinking about how we look at endings in our own lives. A job we leave… a business we shut down… a project that doesn’t work out… a chapter that comes to an end. We often see these things as something that’s over… something to leave behind and move on from.
But perhaps that’s not always how life works. Perhaps some endings simply change our purpose.
The experience we gained becomes wisdom… the mistakes become lessons… the relationships we built become connections… and the things we learnt along the way become the foundation for whatever comes next.
The tree stump in this picture isn’t what it once was… but it’s still creating something.
And that’s a useful reminder… just because something is over doesn’t mean it’s no longer useful.
Sometimes, what comes next grows from what came before.
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