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TREES - impressions about life

Updated: Oct 8, 2024

April 24th, 2022

author: Katarzyna Nowocin-Kowalczyk (Catherine)

Trees - impressions about life with the cultural expert's eye

text from the book: TIME OF CHANGES

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Trees talk. They tell stories. Trees show a different world. A different perspective. A different image.

Trees are the voice of nature. One of many.

But trees also resemble people. Some stand obediently in a row. Because that's how they were positioned. Others choose freedom. They grow in a distance from the row. Sometimes alone. Some are pruned and shaped according to someone’s concept. Others shape themselves. Independently.

All trees bravely fight winds and storms. Adversities. Some lose this fight. They fall broken. Others sometimes lose branches. Sometimes they break in half. But they are reborn again. Even more beautiful. Even stronger. With a wonderful crown, giving shade to weary wanderers. With a crown reaching the sky. With a strong solid trunk and roots connecting them to Mother Earth. They give oxygen needed for life. They make the wanderer able to breathe.

The one who is attentive grows like a beautiful tree. Breathes fully. And there is no fear in him. Trusts. Believes. Loves. He captures his moments. He is grateful for these moments and for every experience that helps him grow. Even if the experience is difficult. Even if it tears apart the soul. One who trusts understands that the more difficult the experience, the more beautiful the rebirth. He who trusts, he who does not judge, the one who does not divide, grows with Love.

Because the more the tree is disarranged by fate the more beautiful it is. More interesting. All the more interesting stories it tells. Like a human who has experienced a lot. He died and was reborn again. Resurrected.

Apparently, trees are just an element of the landscape. And isn't the human being the same thing?

A person is only a passer-by in his life. A passer-by on this planet. Nature just exists. No matter how many passers-by there will be and for how long they will stop. And no matter how much passers-by shouted, were a know-it-all, fought among themselves and with Nature, tried to impose their rules of the game, control, in the end Nature always wins. Because Nature is the Creator. If you do not respect Nature, if you do not live according to its laws, you reject the Creator. You reject Life. And you reject Yourself.

Trees are silent witnesses of events. Observers of the world. Sometimes participants.

Trees live. Trees speak. Trees feel. Trees are Us.

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