What do you think of mud? You know, the wet, loose, rich stuff, packed with humus where bacteria and microorganisms thrive in symbiosis.
How about diving into it headfirst? Not just getting your clothes dirty, but getting completely soaked in the mud?
Chances are, you’ll cringe: “Ew, gross! Never!”
But a baobab seed wouldn’t understand you: “Are you crazy? This is paradise!” In fact, the seed would ask you to throw in some manure. It would tell you about the value of organic fertilizers for the soil and list the nutrients they offer: proteins, amino acids, peptides, purines, pyrimidines; carbohydrates; monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides; lignin; lipids; resins; tannins; organic acids; alcohols; aldehydes, and more.
For the baobab seed, mud isn’t hell. It’s heaven.
Fertile soil is essentially the primordial soup, teeming with nutrients plants need to thrive—nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur, iron, potassium, and more.
Life needs primordial chaos to begin.
To the tiny baobab, mud is beautiful and desirable precisely because it’s undefined, chaotic, and full of potential. It’s a cornucopia, generously offering everything new life needs right now. How could it not love mud?
No wonder the African baobab grows so enormous and otherworldly as if its roots are reaching for the sky. One in South Africa’s Limpopo province reached 15.9 meters in height and 47 meters in circumference.
No one even knows how old they truly are. Radiocarbon dating suggests baobabs can live up to 5,500 years or more—older than sequoias. It may be the oldest tree on Earth (Wikipedia).
Now, imagine that baobab seed is the future You.
Think: what is your nourishing, strengthening, rejuvenating, stimulating, and inspiring Mud?
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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