I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only, I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. – Margaret Atwood – Variation on the word Sleep
A lonely tree was growing among hot sands of dead desert. Prickly sands covered the Wood. The Sun mercilessly burned its bark. But the Tree kept on living in spite of all.
One day a Hawk flew over the desert. The Hawk saw the Tree and sat on its branch. He looked around the desert and said:
— You are a strange Tree, why do you keep on living among these dead hot sands? Who needs it?
— You, — the Tree answered.
— Me? — the Hawk was surprised. — I don‘t need you.
— But if not me, — the Tree told, — you would have to sit on the hot sand instead of my branches. If not me, someone, seeing you sitting on the tree alone, would say that nobody needs you, too and would ask you what you live for. Sitting on my branches you, Hawk, think that I need you. The Hawk thought about it and had to agree with the Tree. If there was no Tree, the hawk would feel himself alone and useless among this vast desert.
Sometimes we want to be needed by others and sometimes we want to go unnoticed, either way, let’s learn to appreciate each other more through gratefulness or by sending a message of appreciation. Each of us has a gift to share with the world, each of us has a purpose here to fulfill.
LIVING IN THIS MOMENT 
You are so right, Karen 🙂
Sometimes we feel a need to be ourselves, that doesn’t necessary mean, that we don’t need other souls around us at all.
I agree thanks Irene! 💕
this is lovely and i so understand it –
Thankyou Beth! I appreciate your comment 🙏🏻💕
Yes…
I’m not crying on the bus on my way to work now!
❤
Oh! Big hugs Sawsan. I appreciate you. 💕
And me you, tremendously 😙
🙏🏻💚🙏🏻
wonderful Karen!
now why is
actually doing
this so hard? 🙂
I think when we understand who we are and what we need, we learn to see that it others and that’s when we can appreciate each other. Thankyou David. 🙏🏻
Oneness! ❤
Yes connection and oneness Eliza! 💕
Wonderful words, and great wisdom Karen. Thank you!
Thankyou Nico I appreciate your words. 🙏🏻
Beautiful story and so true! We just need to remember this wisdom ❤
Yes I agree. Thanks Helen. 💕
Wonderful message for this season…. (and every other day of the year, frankly!) Thank you, Karen. I appreciate YOU tremendously…. Hugs, Lori
Likewise Lori! Appreciation is needed everyday. Thankyou 💕💕
love your writing…..kat
Thankyou Kat! Always nice to have you here 💚
I enjoy my own quiet space most of the time. But we all need people to thrive.
I agree Kath 💕💕