I had a very interesting thought in one of my peaceful ambles into the woods. I thought of how we humans fall deeply in love and how this process is similar with our attachment towards a place, like a forest.
We fall in love deeply only after we have seen all of the seasons of the other : angry, broke, tired, sleepy, funny, annoying, cute, inspirational, brave, sexy, boring,scary . You name it, you have experienced it all. And still, after you have seen them at their worst, you know that you love them despite of their flaws and maybe just because of them. As each person has a distinct set of icks that we find tolerable and, after a longer time, maybe adorable.
But we need to have the patience and the desire to give the person the time. I thought of my favourite forest and how I have seen it transformed through the winter. From a bleak place of barren trees it grows into a lush green splendour. If it snows it looks like a fairytale kingdom. In the autumn the show of colors gives me the chills and summer is just a radiant time.
I have fallen in love with the forest because I have experienced it throughout the year. I saw trees moving like angry giants under the gust of the wind. I was able to smell the rain hitting the thirsty soil. I could bathe my eyes in the vibrant green reflection of the newborn leaves. I felt that each time the forest was showing me another side of it precisely at the moment when I thought I have seen it all.
Love is always growing and we humans, ideally, evolve constantly. Me from today will be another person tomorrow. The surest thing is that if we let life touch us we will always change. And during our own process the other looks at us with admiration and falls in love with us all over again….
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