El árbol que suspiraba
This is the story of a tree, a beautiful and leafy walnut that enjoyed every moment of its existence watching humans come and go. It was a happy tree. He had felt hugged so tight and so many hearts tattooed his trunk, that the energy of those beings was also theirs.
He delighted in the conversations he listened to and from his centuries-old placidity, I envied them. Every day their shadow gave them shelter and offered them a suggestive space in which to dream, read and rest. And every night he confessed to the moon his most secret yearning…” I would love to be one of them, feel like them, to come and go as I please wherever I want, tour the entire world and reveal its secrets, hug, big, feel…”
And the moon, with patient wisdom, he just smiled and listened.
But so many were the sighs that the tree exhaled and the supplications that it raised to heaven, that one good night the moon decided to put an end to his desire and told him:
-Dear friend of mine, You have been throwing your desire for a long time and all your efforts seem in vain. No te preocupes, do not suffer. You don't know humans and believe me, they are not what they seem. They live enslaved by fear, clinging to the past and worried about the future without knowing, or rather, without remembering who they are.
Instead you, you have no doubts, you know you're a beautiful walnut, that birds make their nests in your leaves, that these will leave you in the fall to protect your roots and will sprout renewed in the spring to shelter those who lie at your feet.
Dime, when year after year you feel like you lose your leaves, Have you ever feared they won't be reborn?, Have you worried about whether a different fruit ripens in you?, Have you been frustrated, sad or desperate if the days passed without anyone sitting at your feet or without the birds perching on you?
-Of course not!-was the blunt and forceful response from the tree that wished to be human.
-I know - continued the moon - that's why I tell you not to envy them, they are not able to trust the natural rhythm of life like you. They live in continual discouragement fearing that they will not get what they want and often forgetting to be grateful for what they have received.. They are arrogant and think they know everything when in reality, they dont know anything. To feel full of joy and happiness it would be enough for them to trust life and limit themselves to enjoying every moment of their existence as if it were the only one, the last.
And with these simple words and a beaming smile, ended the conversation. Dawn.
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