Why can't we live like a tree?
The freedom we ought to learn from Mother Nature I really don’t understand humans' need to conquer and win. Isn’t life our biggest win already? Why can’t we be grateful for what we have, without needing to prove to anyone, ourselves included? Where does this constant need for validation and reassurance, we are doing “good”, come from? Do we learn and inherit it from our ancestors and their need to prove themselves for whatever reasons? Is it nature? Why can’t we be as still as a tree? Beautifully going through life, growing and growing unbothered, wild and bold, always learning and finding new ways to cope with its circumstances, adapting to life. Isn’t that enough? What’s with the need for badges of honour? Why do we feel the need to prove we’ve had a full Life and not just live it, anyhow that is? Is it that there’s so many of us, so many different experiences and people achieving amazing things, that if we don’t it’s as if our lives were completely wasted? Isn’t the...