Spreadout to grow in height but to measure it grow in depth.

Spread out, to grow in height, but
to measure it, grow in depth.

It is life and is like a tree. Tree takes deep rooting down and spreading branches sideways to grow. It is that it ventures into Nature to attain growth. Its survival is subsisted by Nature and for this; it has to merge with Nature. So, it branches out covering space around while penetrate deep into earth through its roots to gain strength to grow up. However, the truth is that it doesn’t grow only for its subsistence but always to contribute its fruits, leaves or flowers for the needy otherwise and also it engages itself to provide photosynthesis to release oxygen to other flora and fauna.
Nature wants us to live and to live for others and other species too.

Ascendancy is the truth of life - it is the imperative truth, an unavoidable truth. Unless the tree adopts itself for growth, it meets with a natural death – a premature death might be. Birth is the momentum and life is the acceleration on which you have no control and death is the salvation. Life gets dwarfed if fail to grow or get stagnated to face the inevitable – the death. Nature destroys own liabilities, hence one has to contribute however trivial the share might be to sustain with life and one can not escape it. There is no substitution for participation and one has to absorb and adopt the environment and release and distribute his might too back. Trees and plants absorb fertility and contribute to add fertility to soil and this compensatory factor is the truth of life.

Man can not disassociate himself from taking part in life as he has indulged himself in through birth. He has embarked on a journey and he has to complete it in spite of traverse conditions and complications. The main purpose with the journey is to create goodwill and not animosity. Contradictions are inevitable but reconcile to the situations is where man scores. The trees too faces tsunami, Katrina, tempests and storms but survive and continue contributing with no complaints. Continue to grow, is the call of Nature and one has to comply with the command.

One can not retreat from life as there is no alternative provided to him. He has to cover pits and pitfalls to catch up to the mountain – the fulfillment. However, fulfillment is not a mirage for him but he can not choose to be in the oasis ever as he has to move forward. Fulfillments are not specific and static as ‘time’ interferes with them every time with expanding its range. Man, however, has either no control on time. Hence, life is a conflagration of fulfillments which represents what you have released and not what you have safe-guarded. Therefore, you need to part with things in life to give back to the Nature and never try to hoard things for yourself

Contributions can be trivial or tiny and not necessarily gigantic. The squirrel helped Ram to build the bridge to Lanka carrying grains of sand. Each grain was the full weight for it. Within oneself one has his reach and one might not fail himself in sharing with, his part. A simple sip or a bite turns often tastier than a gulp or devouring. Conversely a simple slip may turn out to be fatal but a big fall inconsequent. Donation of a rupee coin by a daily wage earner might be more valuable than a gold-coin by a rich man as the relevance is the affordability and not the gift.

Spread you wide and deeper you penetrate, give you strength to stand straight and grow and falter you to do so, befall you with no fulfillment and the life turn disdainful.


M.S.Kumaran