Tree--Kenneth

Unbearable, completely and utterly. It is what the days had recently come to as they
became less uncommon. Dreadful were the mornings I woke up to and helplessness was the feeling carried to sleep. Everywhere felt like a prison. I couldn’t take control of my own life to explore my interests and my busy work schedule prevented any action to help this grim situation. To think I could find happiness in life as a biochemist was pathetic. My decision to pursue this path was stupidly foolish, but inexperience will allow them to happen. I couldn’t blame him for falling into the trap of the education system. Science and technology had been growing and its influence on education translated to the many victims of the institution. Who was my younger self to doubt it anyways?

The hatred for my work evolved into laziness and that eventually lead to my termination. It never it occurred to me that this perhaps was for the best. My brainwashed mind impressed on me the idea that my life was over. Through no fault of it’s own, it believed a stable, scheduled job was everything, and when that had come to an end, I had no idea what to do. Although unemployment is not the best of things, it is not the worst and much of the affliction was unnecessary. I find myself thankful for it as thinking retrospectively it was, indeed, necessary in its own right. It was necessary for my demise to lead to a new beginning. I had always wanted a more happy life and I believed I could achieve that while maintaining my job. In the end, that

could have never been more deceitful. My termination marked a new beginning for me and I had my sufferings to thank for. 

Adversity was a thing of the past and it was in the adversity in which I found myself reborn. What ultimately gave me peace to my anguish was my love for nature. It was in the dense, mysterious forest and sky-high trees that I found myself entranced and renewed. I felt safe and blanketed with peace knowing that the woods would never disappoint me in my need for serenity. My misery had allowed me to find this resolution when amidst the pain I found myself suddenly calm with the environment and it was with this discovery I explored and found my love for it. The peace I found in the woods cleansed the plague on the brain that was so fond of urban society and corporate work and permitted a new life that was in tune with the world and truly happy as a treehouse builder.