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Is Life Shaped Like a Tree?
Taking and editing this image reminded me of a philosophical musing that first came to me some years ago. I often think life is shaped like a tree.
It starts out as a seed in mother earth, and reaches up into the light. Our journey begins as a shoot, then grows into a trunk. Then the branches begin to grow out from the trunk. These are the first choices we make on the path of our destiny. As more choices come to us, so more branches grow – each one is a path. When we reach the end of our lives, the many different paths – the ones we did and did not take – would look like the shape of a tree. Then we become the seed, drop to the ground – and perhaps we grow again someday.
I guess no-one really knows, but it seems like a pleasant thought. Maybe there is some truth in it. I hope to pick the sequence of branches that gets to the seed with the best view. When the time comes, which branch will you pick?
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Is Life Shaped Like a Tree?
Taking and editing this image reminded me of a philosophical musing that first came to me some years ago. I often think life is shaped like a tree.
It starts out as a seed in mother earth, and reaches up into the light. Our journey begins as a shoot, then grows into a trunk. Then the branches begin to grow out from the trunk. These are the first choices we make on the path of our destiny. As more choices come to us, so more branches grow – each one is a path. When we reach the end of our lives, the many different paths – the ones we did and did not take – would look like the shape of a tree. Then we become the seed, drop to the ground – and perhaps we grow again someday.
I guess no-one really knows, but it seems like a pleasant thought. Maybe there is some truth in it. I hope to pick the sequence of branches that gets to the seed with the best view. When the time comes, which branch will you pick?
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