The 1,300-year-old lotus seed that came back to life

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A lotus seed sat in a dried up lake bed for about 1300 years and then somebody put it in water. It was found in China and it's the same lotus seed you see in every temple pond in India. The flower everyone says that it rises out of the mud. Most seeds would have been long dead but a lotus seed has a hard little shell around it and inside it just waits. So in the 80s, a scientist in California made a tiny cut in its shell, put it in water and a few days later it sprouted. A seed that was already old when the Taj Mahal was built came back to life because somebody cracked the shell and gave it water. And we talk a lot about the lotus and the mud but we never talk about this part. The waiting and maybe there's something in you that's been quiet for years. The thing you used to make on the person you were before life got busy and it's easy to look at that and decide that it's dead because nothing has happened in so long. So what have you been calling dead that's only been waiting for water to come?

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