The Tree Doesn’t Apologize for Growing

We are taught to shrink ourselves so others can stand taller. To whisper when we want to shout. But the tree does not apologize for its reach.

We are taught to trim ourselves down, to soften our branches to make others feel comfortable but the tree; the tree grows anyway.

We are taught to be smaller, quieter and easy to manage. But the tree doesn’t ask for permission it just grows.

So let’s be like the tree, unbent, reaching for the sky, and growing anyway even when the world says we shouldn’t because the tree doesn’t apologize for growing.