At any point in time, find time to walk by a tree and observe. Do not think much, just observe. What you will probably witness is how the leaves on the tree fall and whither and how new leaves emerge from that same tree. A literal or maybe even scientific explanation could be perceived as the growth of a tree- after all, everything grows. A deeper meaning perhaps will spell out the word Resolution- backed by more than a dose of mentality.
But then again, there is a tree in the background. A tree that has got a mentality, a mentality to continue to grow and move forward, not afraid to let the doubts and disturbing factors whither along the line to accommodate better and refreshing leaves.
My friend as the group leader of a class project decided that in order for the project to have a lasting impact, he-along with members of his group would do things differently.
Sure, it was going to be largely insurmountable to raise funds, but at the same time, funds were really minute to the vision he created and the goal of the project.
My friend’s group was a really huge tree with diverse branches and leaves. As expected of a typical tree that we observed earlier, some leaves withered in the process of making preparations for the task and some grew, all down to one thing - mentality.
I believe we all have resolutions. We all want to try to be a different or better person than we were. Human beings are brands- we want to be better. We all want to move forward but that has different concepts attached to it.
The tree I observed told me that we all want to be better people than we are and probably shed some leaves at certain stages in our lives, but even that means an entirely different thing. On God’s Earth, we are not constrained by opportunities or resources. Manna will always fall from heaven; what counts is who gets to know it is falling.
So, because we tend to make resolutions, we become our own tree- planted by the river side of the opportunities we give to ourselves, growing and shedding, and driven by the most powerful of them all- mindset.
The way I have explained, the world is full of dark clouds of mentalities. The only question we can ask ourselves now is; will it rain? Again, do observe a tree!