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The Giving Tree (Trust)

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Here is my layout for the journaling challenge found here!

Journaling:

A boy found a tree once.

"Oh Tree!" He said.
"You are the most beautiful tree I have ever seen!"
She smiled and her leaves shuddered with surprise.
"Will you give me your heart and I will give you mine?"
But the Tree was fearful for she had been hurt before.
"I will give you my best leaf!" And she dropped her favorite
leaf.
The boy watched as it fell and looked at it as it laid on the ground
and wrinkled his nose. "Thank you," he said politely, "it is a lovely
leaf." And he went home. The next day, the boy came and stood by
the tree and the leaf.
"Oh Tree! You are the most beautiful tree I have ever seen! Will you
give me your heart today?"
The tree thought and thought and finally smiled. She then dropped a
whole bunch of leaves at his feet and stood proud.
He looked at the leaves for a moment and smiled a bit. "Those are lovely
leaves, thank you." He then went home and the tree drooped a bit.
The next day, the boy came back and stood between the leaves in front
of the tree.
"Oh Tree, you are the most beautiful I have ever seen! Will you give me
your heart today?"
The tree thought and thought and thought then finally shivered and dropped a branch. The boy looked at the branch and sighed and went back home.
The next day the boy came back and looked up.
"Oh Tree! You are the most beautiful tree I have ever seen, I have brought my heart in my hand every day and yet you still do not give me yours!"
The tree drooped sadly and sighed.
"I have given you my best leaf, yet you did not want it. I gave you a pile of my leaves, yet they were not good enough for you. I gave you my best branch, yet it was not exactly what you wanted. Each of these if you look closely enough has pieces of my heart on them, but you do not want them. If I cannot trust you with these, how can I trust you with my heart?"

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@MrsPeel You can find the book on youtube, read aloud so you can hear it.

You can take a short story and read it to a room of 20 people and every single person will interpret the story in a different way. I, unfortunately, have always disliked the Giving Tree story because to me it was about a boy taking and taking and taking until the tree gave everything she had and symbolized real life far too closely for me. I hate how the boy never gave back, he took everything she had and then took it for granted.

But then, most people I talk to don't see it that way. And it's awful for me to see it in a negative light, but other than playing with her as a boy, he never did anything for her.

On the other side of the token, here it also is the selflessness of the tree and how amazing she is and provided the boy with everything and how she DID get something in return because making him happy made her happy.

Take from it the meaning it gives to you and your heard. Read/listen to it with an open soul and find pleasure in it as you will.

I had a really rough day with pain and 3 hours of standing around with people I barely knew. I wasn't going to show my pain at all, that's not how I was raised. So when we got in the car at the end (I pulled some muscles in my back three days before that so I was still in a world of hurt) I let all the pain noises and gasping out that I couldn't show in company. I just needed to vent a little, to whimper and get it out of my system. It was met instantaneously by trying to take me to the hospital. The last ten years of me dealing with this headache have been the same as well. I literally have to hide all my pain and everything under a smile or I'll be taken to the hospital where the pain is only worse, I have nothing to distract me and I have to sit in an uncomfortable place while they stick needles in me and tell me there's nothing they can do. And they give me tylenol, which freakin' does nothing.

So, I hold it all in as usual. And was told "why won't you let me in?" So that was my venting.
 
@bellbird Thank you for giving the links and whatnot! I have no trouble with people jumping in! I appreciate it since things here have been kind of erratic.

::hugs to all!!::
 
the more I know you, the more I find similarities with our lives and the way we see some things... I definitely saw the boy as a pushy one, who was never happy with anything that was given... I really don't see it as seeing it in a negative way!!!!! I just think, like you well said, everyone will see it from their point of view or their hearts....but to me the boiy should quit moaning and being so demanding LOL
I will most defo read the book!!!!!
Now I so soooo loud hear you with the hospital thing...
Some of the problem with the evaluations I have fior the welfare have to do with the fact that I have refused to see an orthopedic surgeon to monitor my hips because they ruined me so much along 5 operations in 3 years, I wont let them touch me...
I deeply dislike hospitals, even though I should be used to by now as I spent a very good chnk of my life waiting in clinics...but you are so right, they try give us Paracetamol here, whenm I tell them, "Love, I am on 400mg of Tramadol Hydrocloride, Paracetamol will wash like water" they gasp, and to me is also the fact that you can't get distracted which makes the pain even worse...and I am insomniac...
Once again, how I wish we lived closer...I feel like coming over to hugg you very very tight and try to help in some way....Love you DEARLY!!!!!!
 
YAS!!! This is so beautiful!! Seriously, one of the best books ever written!! I don't know one single person who doesn't like it!
 
@MrsPeel Love you too! Still pulling for you and hoping things get better and easier!! Don't you looooove it when they try to give us little things? You're right, the water analogy is perfect!

One day, we will get to hug!!! <3<3
 

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