A Squirrel and a Tree

"I went to Lake Bonny Park for this assignment, and I stayed there for at least 50 minutes." When I arrived I will be honest, I was frustrated from a busy, crazy day. I started walking around the path just thinking about my day, and everything I had to do later. As I started my walk I was surprised when I squirrel jumped over my head into another tree. I laughed right out loud because it was so cute. That squirrel got me thinking, it seemed not just happy but joyful. It was just minding its own business jumping from tree to tree. It seemed as though it did not have a care in the world, just enjoying life and doing what he wanted. But then I started thinking, what if I was wrong, what if the squirrel was running away from a predator. What if he was right on the brink of death, and not knowing where to run to next? Suddenly, I felt bad for the little squirrel, I could have easily saved him from a predator, but he didn’t know I could help him, if anything the squirrel was afraid of me to.

The next thing I noticed was all the dead trees. I felt like so many of the trees were half barren, and almost as if they were falling apart. But then I looked to the other side of the path and there were plenty of green flourishing plants. I thought it was so strange that in the same place there could be so much life and death. At first it made me sad, to see all the dead trees, but then I thought but what about the life. Why aren’t I rejoicing about the living trees?

These two things; the squirrel and the trees changed my thinking. There is so much we don’t see in life, and don’t understand. We may not always know why a situation is what it is. But we need to be able to see the whole picture and point out the positives and enjoy life for what it brings, not takes away.