A seed can wait through events that fill entire human biographies.

A seed can sit through decades of everything that fills a human life and lose nothing. It is not waiting in any sense it experiences; it is simply holding, until conditions arrive, at which point it does exactly what it was always going to do. Dormancy is not decline.

There may be things in you that are dormant rather than dead. A capacity, an interest, a way of being that has had no conditions for years. You cannot force germination by effort alone, but you can change conditions: different company, different demands, different amount of light. Sometimes what looks like something you lost was only something without a season yet.