Forests

I've been thinking about forests.

Imagine with me a forest with hundreds of varieties of trees. From centuries old to saplings. There are healthy trees with strong roots, sturdy trunks and outreaching branches. Then there are the sickly ones.

There are trees that have weak roots, rotting, hollow trunks, branches that have reached too far and forgotten balance. Trees that though old are not sick or infested.

Dying trees that are being chewed up and destroyed by parasites or sick with sores, tumors and other diseases. Some just too damaged by time.

There are trees that overshadow the healthy ones, stealing their chance of light by taking the sun and the nutrients of the earth. Ones that absorb little saplings, or destroy before they have a chance to spread root. Some that no longer seed or create something new.

Why is it that these sickly trees are being given all the light? Are being patched with band-aids instead of being pruned. Why are the saplings ripped up and more nutrients spread at the base of the tree?

Isn't it for the best that these once great trees fall? Be cut down so that their bodies so that they can decompose and nourish the land, so their branches no longer block the sun?

Why not give the saplings a chance to grow, a chance to thrive and one day, of course overshadow other saplings, that is nature. But maybe these ones would be healthy and strong. Not infested... or welcoming infestation and disease.

Why is the... farmer... trying to prolong the life of a tree that's dead and just doesn't know it yet.

Now replace trees with corporations and you'll see what I've been thinking of if you haven't already.