The World According to Emilee/Episode 1: Acorns

Mom wanted to go out for a walk late in the afternoon. She asked if anybody would like to with her. Nobody wanted to go but me.
We entered the elementary school playground, where there are enough weeds to make a small forest. Mom told me to dig them up due to being annoying and will be tough to get rid of in the future, where they might grow into full trees.
I dug them all up with my bare hands.
Work was almost done, but then I noticed a large bush hiding underneath a ramp. Mom would rather want to leave it alone, but I decided to pull the leaves out anyways. The bush had thick roots, so I requested some help for my mother.
We pulled them all out, making the playground good as new.
A few weeks later, mom and I returned to the playground, but it was different for a few reasons;
# I had a shovel my grandma gifted me for my birthday. It can change its length with the pull of the base.
# We were going for the tree next to the road.
#I didn’t enjoy it as much as last time, because the dirt was like a rock, even after a rainstorm softened the soil.
For the third time, mom brought gloves instead of my shovel (they were previously used to pull out weeds from her garden) and my twin sister instead of just me. Let’s call her "JuneBee" for now.
I felt as calm as I was the first time.
It was perfect.
Every time I went, there were always some kind of weeds, each of them almost always attached to a little acorn or two. (Whenever I didn’t find a sprout with an acorn, I assumed it was deeper in the ground.)
Writing this down, it seems like they symbolize something. Like, say, nature or life.
For life, we start off as little acorns in the ground, waiting to sprout up into mere leaves.
Years go by, and now you're an entire tree; however you need to endure the wind, storms, and floods Mother Nature attacks you with.
Finally, you either wither away or get chopped down, but you may have the chance for more sproutlings to grow.
The circle fo life is such.
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