I thought about the tree I was in and about what trees do in the storms. They put their roots down deep into the earth, and that s how they hold on. But the rest of them can bend with the wind. If we don t learn how to deal with being afraid and angry, it s like being a tree that s really rigid. When the wind hits it, it breaks.
Big trees break if they don t bend and flow.
It s the same with you and me. After awhile, I liked it better when I was alone because I lived on such a tiny platform. When another person was there, it was hard to get any work done. And I was working really, really, really hard in the tree. I wrote 100 letters a week by hand.