There are so many beautiful reassurances and wisdom that comes from nature.
As fall comes around, it gently reminds me of that sometimes, whether in mind, body or spirit, we can feel the death and decay of the pieces of self that we worked so hard on growing. Like the apple tree growing in my yard, I think about how even though the apples and the leaves on the tree cyclically grow and die, the tree itself keeps getting taller. Like me, the tree is experiencing the inevitable. The apples don't get bigger as the tree gets bigger. The leaves don't even seem to get bigger as the tree gets bigger. But as the tree grows, it creates more space for more leaves and more apples to grow, and even still... each year, they grow! And each year they die. Like the tree, our growth is inevitable. Whether intentional or nonintentional, there will always be parts of us that are growing each day. Likewise, in order for that new growth to happen parts of who we are, (our beliefs, our identities, our dreams, our goals, our friends, partners, careers, hobbies, etc) must die. My question is: What happens when we refuse to let go of the things that are required to be let go of in order to grow? Do we run the risk of not going through the discomfort and missing out on experiencing the new growth? Are we just preventing ourselves from accepting the inevitable? No matter how much the tree loves the apple it was able to grow, it will lose it because that is the natural order of this Terran experience. Do we actually have any control over this experience? If we did have control over it... would we really hold on to the past and miss out on what awaits? I certainly don't have all the answers but have many questions and the courage to explore them. With love, A
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