A tale of a tree

Once there was a beautiful tree who was enjoying its youth. It had stunning branches as if it was a gold polished, fresh leaves as if it just sprouted and the aroma as if it will blow the mind. It would dance with the breeze of the wind and sing with the birds. It felt the world belonged to him as everyone would admire it and want it.

As time passed, the weather changed. All of a sudden there was more darkness in the days and the temperature was severely cold. The tree that used to swing its branches with the breeze started to feel weak. The leaves that used to depict the beauty of the tree started to turn yellow. When the weather was extreme, the leaves started to fall one by one. The tree ended up with naked branches as all of the leaves turned their faces and left tree naked to face the cold earth. The birds left it all alone too as they moved to another beautiful trees somewhere else. The people who loved to rest under its shed did not come for it for a long period.

When the tree was all alone, there were times it felt that the world was finished. It began to feel that it was the most unfortunate one that had to suffer the most painful moments when it found everyone else and everything else was on their best times. It started to stay alone and avoided communication with everything else.

But the tree still wanted to live no matter what. The tree all alone fought to the winds, rains and snows. It's focus was on to struggle with the difficult times of its lifetime, rather than impressing others and try to make them happy. Its because the tree had rooted deep on the earth, it could survive throughout the icy winter. The tree won the battle with its own emotions, strengths and self worth.

The time, temperature and weather changed again. Once the naked branches were full of buds now and soon the tree was full with blossomed flowers. Then green leaves appeared and the tree was beautiful again, ready to shelter thousands of birds, insects and even produce oxygen for the nature. While, some of the fallen leaves got dry, was crushed when stepped on, some of the leaves were decayed by fungus and later on absorbed by the roots of the tree as nutrients.

The moral of the story of the tree is good times and bad times are not the permanent moments of life. One has to go through both of these times and the person who can control himself during the happy periods and can calm himself when the time is harsh, that person will be able to tackle with any situations. Most of the people who we consider as family, friends, relatives or other known individuals will be with us for their own benefits or as long as one can provide them with some benefits. These kind of people will be out of contact when the person is in pain or suffering and will no longer be useful for them. It is not necessary to cut of them entirely when their nature is well known, rather , the times they left all alone should be taken as a lesson and should be kept in mind before making decision in future. One should never give up and self confidence is more worthful than other's helping hand as it will keep you alive, ready to fight against the obstacles and get the desired outcomes.

If the tree had given up, the tree would have never been able to survive after the harsh weather when every one else left it all alone.