Have you ever think -- or at least a glance in your mind about the life of a tree?
I was about preparing my final thesis, studying plants (yeah, it may sound weird for some of you) when a flash idea suddenly popped out between my massive headache at those struggling days.
What comes up when you hear this word: Tree?
Frankly and weirdly it means a lot for me. By ignoring the fact that trees and forests are my research topic and I myself nearly became crazy of it, trees are there, at my interest.
I will not preach about those stack of plants life or metabolisms or transportation or nutrition or cell communication or even gases exchanging (fakyea my thesis!). They are freaky.
But take a deeper look on these:
1. No matter how tremendous the storms are, a tree will always stand tall after all. Storms might destroy some parts of a tree, but life must go on, life continue...
2. After the rain, a tree will be refreshed and recharged. It is gloomy, yet somehow, a tree needs a little rain to feel more brand new, to release the waste. Analogous to human tears, no?
3. Trees can live both in group or solitary. Furthermore, they don't depend one another to live.
4. They do competition. To gain nutrition, light, water, and air. This is where the theory of survival of the fittest rules. They do competition fairly. They don't need to kill one another to be the fittest, nature does. All the tree has to do is just do its best.
5. A tree will stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky. No matter how tall it will be, the 'feet' always on the ground.
6. A tree absorbs what-they-say-as-a-waste: carbon dioxide. Accept and process them into more useful form. As a sweet 'revenge', tree will release oxygen needed by nearly all living things. A lesson about sincerity
7. Tree provides a shelter, even to strangers. From herbs, small plants, animals to human.
8. Tree will survive and always be prepared for the changing seasons. There's no such a thing like "I'm not ready for the changes".
9. Tree will always take positive energy. Soak up the sun no matter how terrible the sun light.
10. And after all, a tree lives in harmony and balance with nature.
Happy World Forest Day, for you who care :)
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