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Trees and Life Have you ever seen a tree shrink? Has it ever grown thinner? Has it ever complained about discomfort? No. Never has a tree done such a thing. In many ways trees represent perfect ideals. The ideas that life is all about. The qualities of a perfect individual. Every thing that makes life perfect. Trees are always growing symbolising the strive, that we must all have, for success. The trees reach for the sky an never look down. Every day and every night they cointinue to grow and they continue to branch out. The blue is the only thing they see and every passing minute takes them a little bit closer to it. Storms might chop them in half, but a new one will immediately take its place. Seasons will pass, surrounding will change, but a tree that is not disturbed will continue to grow. That is how life should be lived. One goal is set, and as soon as it is met, another, higher one is set. Branches spring out of branches all trying to show how goals needen't only go straight up in one fied, but must also branch out to differrent, sometimes challenging, fields. Some brances are thick and strong, while others are puny and weak. The stronget branches continue to grow, while the thinner ones stop. Symbolism needn't only be found in the main trunk and branches of the tree but it can also be found in the leaves. The leaves show that good times and bad times will come and go, but that cannot stop the growing process. The green leaves blossom in spring and in autumn they gradually die away. Like life, a never-ending cycle. Good times come and go, come and go, come and go... Each reach their own peaks and each reach their own lows. But each of them are clearly defined. Like life some hang on for longer than others. Each leaf is different, just like every topic. Each leaf conveys god or bad, but in a different situation. Some fall off a lot sooner than others and are cherished the most, while the others are taken for granted until they start to fall down. And before each leaf falls, everyone else knows that the leaf will fall. There are hints in life, as on the trees, that the leaf is about to fall and start a bad cycle. Not only this, trees never complain, always obey. Life is like them in this manner too. It will go where you want it to. You decide the person you want to be. It is you that can dictate where and how life will end. Life is an inanimate object driven by your thoughts and wills. How you think will make it take any turn it takes. A trees commander is the rain. If the rain decides to pour in a hurry and at one time, the tree dies, and if there is a drought, the tree dies. The tree, like us, can only survive in a tolerable atmosphere. Trees are the very substance, I believe that accurately define the cycles and ways of life. Watch a tree and learn. Your style of living will change completely, I guarantee that. Date posted: September 19, 1999. What do you think
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