Autmn Leaf Speaks !

Autumn speaks !!

Autumn is beautiful. For some, its a little respite from scorching sun, for some, its time to click their cameras to get the beauty of dying nature in their laptop screens and for some like me, its a dying phase of life where i have to sacrifice myself to make my species sustain the forthcoming winter.
Yes, me and the colourful leaves that you see during the autumn are dying just to make sure the tree survives the winter. Its such a wonder that nature shows that things get beautiful while sacrificing even though they had to sacrifice their lives.

The interesting thing that strikes me is you people are so like me. When we are small as a kid, we get the attraction of people pinching us, plucking our cheeks, playing with us, we get a lot of attention. And also we are not the monotonous green leaves in a brown tree when we just sprouted. We have our own unique taste, smell, colour, texture and own path of growing. We are so tangible and fragile and so is a human child treated.

Once we grow up, there are many like us and we get to lose attention from others and we are one among the other green leaves in the tree, sometimes freely floating in air enjoying the privilege of being in the top, sometimes shaded by some other big leaves and we had to fight to get some sunshine on us to contribute on our part to our producers. This is the phase where we are healthy, prosperous, active, running and working all the time but none will notice us or wonder how great we are working. The normal grown up not bed wetting phase.

And then comes the autumn. Its time to prepare our producers for the next winter. we cant take food for us anymore but we had to leave it to the stem so that they can produce more leaves after winter. So, we had to pay the price and lose our self. We had to lose our colour, texture, smell, freshness yet for everyone we will be beautiful so are most people in their last bed. Everyone wonders and praises how great you are when you are dying and you get the attention again when you really want just to
leave the tree and fly freely.

But this attention is only till you remain in your last bed holding on to your last breathe. the moment you fall down, you are no more to the world. None clicks pictures of you, none watches their feet when they walk over you or feel sorry when they stamp on you. its just my time is over. But I am not. My sacrifices are not wasted. They will help my tree survive the winter and sprout again in summer and again i come and live and sacrifice as a colourful autumn leaf !

Nature is the meaning of our existence. Sometimes we feel that we exist in wrong place, we made wrong choices, but existence is existence and choices are choices.... Love, Affection, Care, Sacrifice are all a part of existence.. Instead of fighting it, live with it to end you life one day so like me as a colourful autumn leaf !