Late Bloomers.

I hope the world will find a way to create spaces for late bloomers to flourish.
You may come early to so many things. Like finish Uni at 17/18/19 or even 20. Some finish uni at 26/27/28/29 or even 30 and above. There are late bloomers amongst us. In fact, with the way this country is structured, many of us are late bloomers. I really wish there are no prejudices against those who their lives start to take shape at a late hour. In fact, I want us to conceptualise time in such a way that the idea of late hour is jettisoned and dismantled.

Many of you are going to get jobs at a relatively young age and some may still struggle at a considerably older age. I just hope we bring down the iron curtains that are shut at late bloomers. Life is a very unpredictable voyage. Some will sail smoothly and some will sail roughly. Others will get to their destinations and some will crash and drown along the way. No matter how early or late people's journies are, I hope we will be kind enough to not compound their woes by shutting the doors at those who came rather later than the others.

Ever applied for a scholarship or a job and you see age limitations? Ever been mocked for being too old to find a man to be interested in you? Have you ever been slurred for still trying to figure out your life at supposedly late hour?
All of these, people will eventually figure things out (or maybe not) but we owe it to late bloomers to treat them fairly. Or maybe we don't owe them. But if you can't help them, leave them and not berate them. After all, if Orishas can't favor you, they should just leave you the way you are.

To be fatalistic, maybe there's nothing like blooming late. You bloom at your own allotted time. You don't come late to the party of destiny. A reminiscent of QUE SERA SERA. With a hard determinist tendency, whenever you bloom is the time determined that you will. If you don't accept that, let's at least even go with the very liberal form of timing and blooming. Free will! People have their agencies. They have their will and their individualism. That people bloom late is a mathematical effect of many actions throughout their lives. Consequences of which they must deal with. So, the mechanics of the world and human relations favor certain people to bloom early and others to bloom late.

So, don't you think just as you have your will as an early bloomer, late bloomers have theirs too? Respect and treat them fairly as you would expect late bloomers to respect and treat you. Give chances to late bloomers where they've already been restricted. There's no greater sense of humanism than that. That, all be treated fairly.
At the end of the day, blooming should be far consequential than the timing. For time is an illusion and blooming is not. Late or early, bloomers are bloomers.

P.S: I’m a late bloomer. I know how it feels when doors are shut at you or you get mocked and disrespected for being nothing but just a late bloomer. That shouldn’t hurt you. Very simple to say. However, you have to dust off the shame and keep blooming. For one day, the mouth their snails used to abuse the gods, they will use to snout in front of the gods. Just keep blooming.