There is no 'perfect tree' - a metaphor for embracing challenges and living a good life

When you think of a tree, what comes to mind? A triangular shaped conifer tree 🌲, or a big rounded deciduous tree 🌳, or something different altogether 🌴?

Whatever it may be, you have predetermined idea of what a tree is or should look like in your head, but when we look around at the real world, we see that that tree doesn’t exist. Real trees have twisting branches, broken crowns, reiterated leaders, scars and burls, curved trunks, and all sorts of different features as they adapted and overcame challenges in their lives, like a windstorm that snapped a branch, erosion that caused them to slump, or scars from when another tree fell. Each tree is beautiful in it’s own way, shaped by all its been through and having place within a forest ecosystem.

In the same way, we each have this idea of how we should be in our minds, molded by societal expectations and benchmarks for how to live a happy, successful life by having kids at a certain age, being married, owning a home, getting a raise, etc…yet when we fail to met those standards or experience hardship such as the loss of a loved one, the end of a relationship or loss of a job, we shun and those events, often keeping them hidden because they go against that image of our life in our mind.

But just like these trees around us, you are on your own journey, adapting and growing in response to whatever disturbances come your way, and sure, the result may not look like the one you’ve so painstakingly crafted in your head, but you have grown into a perfect, gorgeous little tree in your own way that is reflective of all you’ve endured you are absolutely beautiful, just the way you are.

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Produced & Directed by Ross Reid

~ I'd like to acknowledge that this video was filmed on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations. ~

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