Let us start by doing this simple activity. I encourage you to look around you and notice the shapes and write it on a piece of paper or a notebook. What have you drawn? Let me make a guess.
All kinds of shapes – fat, round, lean, oval, just about perfect.
Before you let your imagination wild, I want to share with you the story of #Shapes of Nature. For a moment, when you observe Nature, you will observe that the Trees come in all shapes.
Some Trees are long, some are short while some are slim, and some are stout, lest I forget tall & stout. These variety of shapes engages all our senses and give us a range of experiences. On close observation, do notice we are drawn to some more than the others.
For a moment, I want you to believe that our thoughts are much like Nature. They come in all shapes. Some are sleek and slender while some are really obese. The sleek and slender are the more agile ones. The largely built one and if I may use the word obese ones do not happen overnight, we work hard to really help it reach there until either we break down and then start the long road towards redemption.
I present two such thought trees for your reflection. The first one is the tree of “Un-forgiveness”, one of the most obese shapes affecting us. Un-forgiveness was once a sleek and slender thought called “hurt” which was small. It may have germinated at different ages for all of us. However, the best part is we let it germinate and watered it a regular intervals with all the manure of experience we fed it with age. So far so good, until one day it grew so obese that it start pounding on the boundary walls of our heart, and punctured it to ….
Another powerful and the sleekest of all thought tree is “Love”. Gorgeous and beautiful, it waits to be watered with the wisdom of age and experience. How regularly do we feed this tree thought of “love”? Honestly, it is not as much as that of Un-forgiveness” tree. There is some glamour in pain too, isn’t it. Hence, it germinates, grows and finally withers away as the tree of “un-forgiveness” gathers strength and chokes it to its death. It is a constant struggle for “Love” to grow in a garden which is growing wild with weeds of un-forgiveness.
There are many more such trees in our garden of life which either nourishes us or chokes us. Some are slender and sleek while others are stout and obese. Which one do we choose to nourish?
– #SJ
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