Winter is approaching and in the colder cities the movement of ants in search of leaves increases. I see a small tree have its leaves fully occupied in a few days. How ants use the leaves to grow a type of fungus, which is a source of nutrients for them. Other trees shed their leaves for a different reason: they are deciduous trees and losing their leaves at this time of year is a strategy to deal with the approaching cold and drought. The fewer leaves, the less calories and water are lost. In both cases, dead leaves are a guarantee of survival over time.
Over time, some trees are owned as their leaves to tolerate or hibernate, others belong to theirs to be able to spread like their seeds and we, eventually, will also need to resist setbacks that are part of life and that help in our evolution. . We are also living beings subject to the same cycles of endings and beginnings. We are transformed at every moment by the experiences we live and it is necessary to deal with our species if we want to make room in our lives for new experiences to come to us.
If we now think that we are hard as a rock and that nothing can beat us, others were easily released and seen from experiences that were made in the uncertainties, with our form of rigid rock disintegrated. Life is unpredictable and almost nothing is under our control. Sometimes we daydream, sometimes like the light of the wind, other times we see all our estimates of fire.
Some changes are painful; but in each of these things that happen in our lives, there is something that is reborn within us with more intensity. It's just that there's a part of us that doesn't end with each of these life cycles; a part that is very quiet inside, hidden, witnessing all the transformations. And when everything seems to be over, that little seed starts to germinate. It is from there that our inner strength reveals itself...
It may be that, with the arrival of winter, we cannot clearly see the beauty of the green leaves that fall naturally or are pruned by the ants. But the various cycles through which the tree has already passed teach us that the hidden life of the naked ipês roosters will still bloom beautifully in spring.