NEVER GIVE UP-ADVICE FROM THE TREES

SOMETIMES LIFE IS HARD

BUT WE MUST ALWAYS STAY FOCUSED AND PERSEVERE. IT IS THROUGH LIFE'S CHALLENGES THAT WE ARE MADE STRONGER AND LEARN.

SOMETIMES, IT MAY SEEM AS IF LIFE HAS PUT AN INMOVABLE OBSTACLE IN OUR WAY. HOWEVER, IT IS UP TO US TO FIND OUT A WAY TO EITHER MOVE DESTROY OR GO AROUND SUCH OBSTACLES. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE, THIS TREE. I WAS WORKING THE OTHER DAY WHEN I NOTICED IT ON MY WAY TO THE JOB.

AS YOU CAN SEE, AT SOME POINT A ROAD WAS PUT IN ITS WAY. DOES THIS STOP THE TREE? NO, IS THE ANSWER. IT NEVER GIVES UP AND IT PERSEVERES. I THINK WE CAN LEARN A LOT FROM THIS EXAMPLE.

HERE YOU CAN SEE THE MASSIVE ROOT CONTINUE ON ITS WAY ALONG THE ROAD. IT IS NOT CONTENT TO ONLY TRY TO GO OVER THE ROAD. BUT IT CONTINUES IN EVERY DIRECTION NEVER STOPPING AND NEVER QUITTING, IN AN ATTEMPT TO GROW.

THE SECOND TREE.

HERE ALSO, IS ANOTHER PICTURE OF A TREE THAT I SAW ON THAT SAME DAY WHILE I WAS WORKING. IT HAS ALSO HAD AN OBSTACLE THROWN INTO ITS LIFE. IT IS IN THE FORM OF HAVING HALF OF IT TORN AWAY, POSSIBLY FROM A STORE. HOWEVER IT ALSO WILL NOT GIVE UP OR RETREAT. INSTEAD AND FORGES FORWARD AND TRIES TO OVERCOME THE OBSTACLE. TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THIS GREAT OAK TREE IS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. FIRST, A LOOK AT THE DAMAGE.

AS YOU CAN SEE, ABOUT HALF OF THE TREE IS BROKEN OFF. BUT IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY YOU WILL SEE THAT THIS GUY HAS NOWHERE NEAR GIVING UP EITHER.

CAN YOU SEE THEM? THEY ARE ROOTS. GROWING FROM THE CENTER OF THE TREE TRUNK TOWARD THE GROUND. THIS GUY'S DEFINITELY NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT.

I THINK IF WE LOOK TO NATURE, WE WILL FIND ALL THE INSPIRATION WE NEED FOR OURSELVES. I HOPE THIS POST HAS BEEN INSPIRATIONAL AND HELPS YOU CONTINUE TO KEEP ON KEEPING ON.

REMEMBER, NO MATTER HOW VAD IT SEEMS RIGHT NOW, THINGS ALWAYS CHANGE. NOTGING STAYS THE SAME FOREVER.

KEEP STEEMING FRIENDS. AND ALWAYS LOVE.

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*All photos mine, taken with my Kyocera phone.