The tender lotus leaves have just started to poke their sharp tips out at Fuzhou's Tea House Park

Within at most a week, the lotus in the park's pond have vigorously sprung up everywhere ~ Just the week before, the pond here was still a blank slate, the kind of blank with nothing at all. They occupy a corner of the pond, quietly waiting for the last few heavy rains of spring, longing for the unrestrained growth that is about to come. After all, summer is on its way, and that is the happiest, most blooming, and most brilliant season of a lotus's life! Come on! Life is a miracle. The old banyan trees in the park are full of grace and vitality. But an old banyan is just an old banyan, no matter the wind and rain, the change of seasons, it remains the same, waiting for people to approach it from different angles and admire it in different times. And the lotus knows its destiny; it has no other choice. So, let it dazzle in the most splendid way at the most appropriate time! It knows the irreversibility of its life cycle from the moment the tender lotus just reveals its sharp tips to the pond full of lotus fragrance and then to the remaining withered branches and leaves until it is cleared out of the pond, and it also knows all the various thoughts and expressions of humans by the pond. But it only wants to do well for itself, not to fail the time given. In spring, tender leaves can be seen everywhere; life can be seen everywhere. A year without spring is unimaginable. And what would life be without spring, what would a life without spring be like? April 25, 2024 Thursday