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5 Powerful Life Lessons You Can Learn With Avocados
One of the reasons I love living abroad is avocados. In Brazil, it’s hard to find avocados, and when you do, they are pretty expensive.
I love a good avocado toast and if I could, I would do it every day. Call me millennial, I don’t care. I also eat avocado with everything savoury, especially yummy massive salads.
Last year, when the pandemic first started, I remember picking an avocado to eat. It wasn’t ripe yet, so I struggled to do anything with it. It was useless, “eatless”.
Then, I thought came to my mind: life is just like avocados. That time I was pretty reflexive and that led to a lot of thoughts about avocado and life, but mainly this one:
If something is supposed to be, it feels easy, if it’s not, it feels difficult.
When an avocado is ready to be eaten, it slides like warm butter in a spoon, but when it’s not, there is nothing you can do to remove it from its peel. It’s a lost battle.
That day my avocado wasn’t ready for me, like many other times, but I learned a lot with that simple daily situation that people face around the world almost every day.
There are many life lessons we can learn with avocados, and here are some of them:
