How to Be a Late Bloomer

Late bloomers are underrated.

It's not just the condescending phrase —  the whispered implication that they should have bloomed earlier. And it's not the fact that our culture tends to sprinkle the young with the fairy dust of infinite possibility, while treating late bloomers with the grim surprise we give when spotting an escaped farm animal roaming city streets – what are YOU doing here?

No, the real reason they are underrated is that these kinds of second-act successes are more common and p...