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Each and every yellow leaf on the ground has a story to tell. A story that is different for all of the leaves, because they all came to light at different times, were in different places across the branches, owned different characteristics, and had different experiences while they were around, alive on the same tree. They sprouted and fell as part of the tree’s life history, just like different people emerge and subside in the timeline of humankind. All of them faded at some point in time to somehow give way for the new leaves to come, closely to how ancestors delegate life to the new generations.

The legacy of the older leaves—in the form of sustenance, experience, and growth—lives on in the new ones, empowering their individual existence and strengthening the tree as a whole. Each and every leaf is subtly paving the way to the massiveness of the tree and the sureness of its future. And even when the old leaves are already in the ground and thus are no longer an active part of the system, their decomposition and remineralization keep sustaining the whole and the parts beyond what meets the eye.

Ultimately, from a simplistic standpoint, people and leaves are truly not that different, and humankind really resembles a tree. Each and every leaf of this human tree, you included, is essential for the wholeness of the whole. No leaf is more important than the other; the uniqueness of each leaf’s contribution is priceless for the functioning and evolution of the unit. The tree keeps existing and blooming because of each one’s role. And when a leaf lives more intentionally and consequentially, then the expansiveness of the tree becomes more expressive and ripples soundly through all, reaching even those yet to come.

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