The Trees I See…..
When I was a little girl, I would often go for long walks with my Nanaji. I remember looking at trees and imagining that they were actually beings who had dived headfirst into Mother Earth, holding on to her tightly, with their legs sticking up in the air!
And from those legs sprouted branches, leaves, flowers and fruit.
I remember finding it incredibly funny that nobody else seemed to notice this! These were my quiet little imaginings, which I mostly kept to myself.
This morning, as I was speaking to my favourite tree, as I do every day, I saw it from a different angle, and that childhood memory came flooding back.
Only now, I see another dimension to that little imagining.
These miraculous beings, through their very existence, give us so much. Their leaves absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen through photosynthesis, helping sustain life on our beautiful planet.
And I imagined these divine beings diving deep into Mother Earth, holding on to her with all their strength, simply to look after us.
It makes me sad to think of how many trees are being cut down all over the world, and how much we take away through our short-sightedness and greed, without recognizing all that they give us simply by existing.
Perhaps that little girl in me still sees trees as beings embracing Mother Earth.
And perhaps she always will. š
