Leaving Life
As a new life dawns, the crisp bright sunlight illuminates my tiny body. I have now been born. I see my fellow leaves beside me and all over the mother tree. I awake to the sweet scents of nature, the subtle glow of the sun, a gentle breeze drifting by. After my first few minutes of life, I feel as though I am ready to take on the world and all that it has to offer.
It has been a few sundowns; the weather is brisk. I look up to the skies and see that it is quite sunny out. I glance back at my mother tree and notice a child laying down upon the ground. The little girl looks up through my fellow leaves. She giggles as she proceeds to climb my mother. I ask my mom, “Why is the kid doing that?”
“Kids will be kids.”
She jumps down and runs to an adult that looks like the child. I ask “Who is the older lady?” …show more content…
Many moons have passed and it is now even sunnier than before. I can feel the temperature start to steadily rise. It feels as though I need water more and more often, just like the humans around me. I wish I were one of them, being able to freely move about, but I am reminded that as a leaf the only way to do that would be detaching myself from my mother tree. I do not wish to do that, for it would mean that I die.
I look over to my left and see one of the elders of the tree; I see him dried and brown and barely hanging on, in this case for dear life. I think to myself; he has to make it. He just has to. He can’t be the first to go. Sure enough, just as I am about to talk to him, his stem breaks and he plummets to the ground. I look over to my mother, “What just happened?"
“He, your peer, has just lost the game of Life.”
“But mom, why did that
As a new life dawns, the crisp bright sunlight illuminates my tiny body. I have now been born. I see my fellow leaves beside me and all over the mother tree. I awake to the sweet scents of nature, the subtle glow of the sun, a gentle breeze drifting by. After my first few minutes of life, I feel as though I am ready to take on the world and all that it has to offer.
It has been a few sundowns; the weather is brisk. I look up to the skies and see that it is quite sunny out. I glance back at my mother tree and notice a child laying down upon the ground. The little girl looks up through my fellow leaves. She giggles as she proceeds to climb my mother. I ask my mom, “Why is the kid doing that?”
“Kids will be kids.”
She jumps down and runs to an adult that looks like the child. I ask “Who is the older lady?” …show more content…
Many moons have passed and it is now even sunnier than before. I can feel the temperature start to steadily rise. It feels as though I need water more and more often, just like the humans around me. I wish I were one of them, being able to freely move about, but I am reminded that as a leaf the only way to do that would be detaching myself from my mother tree. I do not wish to do that, for it would mean that I die.
I look over to my left and see one of the elders of the tree; I see him dried and brown and barely hanging on, in this case for dear life. I think to myself; he has to make it. He just has to. He can’t be the first to go. Sure enough, just as I am about to talk to him, his stem breaks and he plummets to the ground. I look over to my mother, “What just happened?"
“He, your peer, has just lost the game of Life.”
“But mom, why did that