~Thinking, as I sit outside on a park bench~ 

hummm….growing in life,  is like the growth of a tree…

A tree needs sunshine and water in order to survive (loosely put)

If a tree receives too much… It dies…

If a tree receives too little… It dies…

In order to survive, a tree must receive a balance of both… but sometimes the balance is broken, and it is force to weather whatever fate has planned for it…. but if that tree survives, it grows taller and stronger. The more mature that tree gets, the stronger it becomes and that once little sapling has the potential to become a mighty oak.

I feel, the more we overcome those obstacles we face in life, the taller and stronger we become. There is one advantage that we have over trees, its that trees do not have the free will to change and control the factors their lives, but we do.  The older we get, the more choices we have. Now im not blind mind you, I know there are some things that are beyond our control, and even though we cannot control our destinations, there is always some point in our live where we can control which road we choose in this life.

Just a thought… ~my words~