More about plants

There is a plant in the corner of my living room that is growing sideways. If I can remember correctly, it did, at some point in its life, grow straight up; but, over the course of different apartments, different corners of different rooms, different light sources, it now has an almost rainbow-like curve to its trunk, extending its leaves to the sunlit window, just slightly beyond its reach.
I often think that I should help it out- perhaps rotate it so it can right itself, maybe brace it to a stake or re-pot it sideways so it at least appears that's it's growing straight up. Instead, I do nothing, figuring that if things get really bad, I'll deal with it, out of what I can only explain is a morbid curiosity to wait for the day that it collapses under the weight of its top-heavy canopy, awash in its overturned soil, glaring at me with a look to say, 'You!'

And yet, this plant, rather than allow itself to fall or continue to wait a moment longer for me to do something, decides to send out a shoot from lower on its trunk into the opposite direction, like an upturned kickstand, righting itself back to balance.

Eventually, like all things, it will align itself to what is most suited for its growth. Perhaps at one point in time what it had most needed was to reach towards the window, shooting out as many leaves as it could in that direction to grab whatever light it could. Until it came to realize that that direction no longer suited it- it needed something different. It didn't (as far as I know) question itself, wondering endlessly if this was the right decision, the right move to take, ask all its friends what they think it should do. When it was needed, it simply moved in the direction it needed to take.

Luckily, we humans don't often have to bend to such extremes to right ourselves, but sometimes we do. Sometimes we need to move so far off center to begin to see, much less find, where center is. And sometimes, we just need to go in the direction we are going in for the time being, for as long a time as is needed, until we come to realize that that direction no longer suits us. So even though now we might look back and think, how on earth could I have stayed in that relationship/ that job/ that mindset for so long, we can know, that when it is the time to make the change most needed for our growth, we will.
Who knows what within the plant told it when or how to move in the direction it needed to. Or what within you tells you. It just does. Call it intuition, intelligence, an inner voice, divine guidance, DNA, nature. Whatever is telling you to go in the direction you need to go in, trust it. Even if everything you've ever done has led you in one direction, trust that that little sprout, moving the completely opposite way, knows what it's doing. It's gotten you this far, hasn't it?