here iam once again with my ohhhhhhhhh so vague yet personal crap....so when i say tree hugger pleez dont mistake me for an eco friendly,green peace ,earth loving ,wanting to change the world kinda person.when i say a tree hugger i simply mean that i used to hug trees....
i've a strange relationship with trees, all my life they've featured pretty regularly.my granny's place had mango and guava trees...which we simply climbed when we wanted a fruit,my aunt's place had the hugest(is that a word?) mango tree! really sprawling...every summer when we stayed over for the holidays ,the cousins and siblings would play under its shade and yes !eat a lot of those yummy oh so juicy mangoes.at home in our own backyard we had a huge neem tree and under the thorny lemon bush like tree ,my sis and i played house house(wonder why we said it twice) as kids we were a real wild bunch,just before summer finally arrived there would be these strong summer showers which would make the first crop of summer fruit fall as the windbuffeted the trees,we vagabonds would run and collect a whole lot of fallen fruit off the roads before the rightful owners could get at them.......i know its wrong but stolen goods do taste so goooood!!!!!.the place we lived during my preteens and teens had these marvellous trees all around . the chiku tree which leaned into the balcony wall,was the fave spot for both my sis and me to hide and think or cry and brood as and when teenage stuff happened to us. my fave spot was on top of the guava tree ,perched on top of the tree i could spy on the people coming and going...this tree was very strange in shape ,one of the branches was very low and also formed a sort of bench on which i could sit and hug the tree,the hugging was for all sorts of reasons sad,happy,ecstatic,to clear the mind and definitely to be consoled!.....i dont know if you've tried hugging a tree but its very cathartic....(pleez dont judge or fear for my sanity i am not nuts.)recently i was waiting for the signal to turn green,as i was waiting i looked up and on the side on the road was this beautiful huge tree .just looking at it made me feel very peaceful and calm...i wish the land was not getting smaller and the buildings so tall....its blocking the sky,the view and most of all taking up all the space for the trees to grow.......somedays i get very down for no reason, they say its the baby blues...whatever it is!! if you come across a person hugging a tree..you"ll know its me coz iamthe" tree hugger". soon very soon i shall be scouting around for a tree! the one right across the park ,about now is starting to look real good!!!! so see you around ! next time instead for a cuppa why not join me for a tree hug.
i've a strange relationship with trees, all my life they've featured pretty regularly.my granny's place had mango and guava trees...which we simply climbed when we wanted a fruit,my aunt's place had the hugest(is that a word?) mango tree! really sprawling...every summer when we stayed over for the holidays ,the cousins and siblings would play under its shade and yes !eat a lot of those yummy oh so juicy mangoes.at home in our own backyard we had a huge neem tree and under the thorny lemon bush like tree ,my sis and i played house house(wonder why we said it twice) as kids we were a real wild bunch,just before summer finally arrived there would be these strong summer showers which would make the first crop of summer fruit fall as the windbuffeted the trees,we vagabonds would run and collect a whole lot of fallen fruit off the roads before the rightful owners could get at them.......i know its wrong but stolen goods do taste so goooood!!!!!.the place we lived during my preteens and teens had these marvellous trees all around . the chiku tree which leaned into the balcony wall,was the fave spot for both my sis and me to hide and think or cry and brood as and when teenage stuff happened to us. my fave spot was on top of the guava tree ,perched on top of the tree i could spy on the people coming and going...this tree was very strange in shape ,one of the branches was very low and also formed a sort of bench on which i could sit and hug the tree,the hugging was for all sorts of reasons sad,happy,ecstatic,to clear the mind and definitely to be consoled!.....i dont know if you've tried hugging a tree but its very cathartic....(pleez dont judge or fear for my sanity i am not nuts.)recently i was waiting for the signal to turn green,as i was waiting i looked up and on the side on the road was this beautiful huge tree .just looking at it made me feel very peaceful and calm...i wish the land was not getting smaller and the buildings so tall....its blocking the sky,the view and most of all taking up all the space for the trees to grow.......somedays i get very down for no reason, they say its the baby blues...whatever it is!! if you come across a person hugging a tree..you"ll know its me coz iamthe" tree hugger". soon very soon i shall be scouting around for a tree! the one right across the park ,about now is starting to look real good!!!! so see you around ! next time instead for a cuppa why not join me for a tree hug.
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greenpeace will pay you for what you have written, really. your devotion for trees and Greenpeace's passion for saving them...imagine this: Jaya Naomi Datt, Greenpeace activist, Senior Tree hugger, Singapore. Sounds like good designation.
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