
Listen to the sound of nature, the echoing in the distance, the low chattering of village people talking, the different sounds of the wind blowing through the night sky. Just close your eyes and think about this - Picture yourself in a world filled with love and peace. Where everyday life problems just seem to work itself out - where birds fly freely, and animals live without any fear of there own. Just think about the different forms of faces that you may be passing right by on a daily basis - Let’s just take the time to breathe in the fresh smell of clean ocean water - as we wonder why does this smell seem so new and different. As all of these things that may seem to be going on we tend to live a life of complete understanding that what we observe as human beings is not a misconception of reality - and that same reality we tend to confuse so easily to believe that our way of living is our best way to live our lives. Think about this for a minute if the same tree is planted right next to each other what would be it’s chance of survival? Tree’s speak to each other, they live off of each, they grow and produce with one another. Tree’s rarely die out, but also tree’s can live a very long time. Have you ever seen the center of a tree - in the center of a tree are circles ranging from small to enormous - those same circles will tell you the age of the tree. People are like trees we grow and age but our aging tends to become visible to the naked eye pretty quickly. We as living beings tend to forget that our own pain and suffering comes from our own life choices, we tend to stick to the beliefs of others instead of finding are own belief system and learning and growing from our own mistakes as well as the mistakes or problems we see others go through on a daily basis. We tend to fall to become our own victim at times, leading us to believe that our lives as a child has everything to do with are lives as a adult. Yea we can easily say we had parents who weren’t the best parents we would have wanted, but let us also try to be mindful who there parents might of been to them as well. Generations of family curse, of lack and knowledge of what proper love is and what is the true defense of caring for someone other then yourself. So going back to the point of how trees talk to each other, and live off of one another, and help each other eat and stay alive. We as people can do the same thing if we just all learn to set our differences aside. We can grow with one another, we can thrive with each other, we can even raise a entire village if we wanted to. All it takes is some simple understanding that we as people will never be exactly a like, we will never think a like, we will never love a like, and we will never look a like. But everything from the inside of our bodies are all a like just like the center of a tree, different shapes,sizes, and length is the only difference between people and trees.Moral of this story is let’s try to live a life like a tree would, so we can all blossom into the human beings we are destined to truly be.
About the Creator
Rachel Stokes
I have been writing poetry and short stories since I was level years old. I mostly like to speak about my life experiences and my view point on life. I can go off of any subject or topic. I’m always open for topic suggestions.
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I love this and the image is also amazing