Mighty Oaks

  A lot of people worship the earth. And this worship stems from the fact that the earth and it's inhabitants can give a lot of wisdom to a person. Take the mighty oak trees for example, don't the adults continue to make seeds to continue their kind? And doesn't that seed first have to fall to the earth and die to regrow another? And what of that new seedling, isn't it too small to keep a careless foot from stepping on it and killing it? As it grows over the years, will it not have to adapt to reach it's full potential? Once fully grown, as strong as it is, doesn't it have to remain supple enough to bend with the wind?
  Mighty oaks with roots deep in the ground, are much like any life, or for that matter, any other matter which includes life. Life is symmetrical, there is a circular happening that must go on, a constant recircling of occurences that are a part of its existence. The tree whose life, though much longer then yours, also must die. It like you, lives it's life in seasons, it too must weather the storms of life, in a way that will cause their survival. There is a sameness to life, and all living things sprout up from this sameness. In short, life just doesn't go poof and suddenly appear from nothing, All life has a source, and that source, unlike that who it spawns, can never die. Because life is eternal, it doesn't end at the death of a tree hundreds of years from now, or in your case, a couple of decades from now.