After reading your analogies very carefully they are totally reasonable, I consider that if it applies in our lives you also talk in some way about self discernment, as well as the types of coffee you drink.
After reading and how we can be ourselves, you reminded me of my grandfather's words.
He once said to me.
Son, go slowly, that always where you have to go, is to yourself.
Well yes, in a way, in order to get to the end of life we always go to ourselves, either with a good cup of black coffee, or a coffee with milk as it is the custom to drink it here in my country, in short, like the same acorn that on its way becomes a great oak tree.
This is wise indeed, he was a smart man.
Many people either do not believe in themselves and don't try to progress, develop and live their best life, or expect it to happen without any personal input, the expectation ethos, and there's yet other ways to proceed in life too I guess. Staying comfortable, in place, within safe spaces, is one way to go but it will often inhibit growth because achieving things takes effort and the ability to get outside of one's comfort zones.
I think
you're an acorn, were an acorn, and found a way, and the courage, to break out and grow...Well done.