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The fern does not grow where conditions are favourable. It grows where other plants have given up — in rock crevices, in deep shade, in the thin soil at the edge of things. The Akan people of Ghana looked at this and called it not luck but philosophy. Aya, the fern, is the symbol of endurance not as passive suffering but as active, rooted, unheroic persistence — the kind that requires no audience and produces no drama, and simply keeps growing regardless.

You are still in it. Not approaching the end — or if you are, you cannot see it yet. The difficulty has been present long enough that you have stopped orienting yourself toward the moment it resolves. Aya — the fern — does not demonstrate endurance. It is endurance. Present tense. Growing in the available ground.