It is a truth that every thing in the world has its specific energy and symbolic meaning as well as some things occupy a significant place in human hearts. So, answering the question what I could be having an opportunity to change the appearance and material body, I would become a tree. There are many reasons for such a choice, and explaining these reasons I would like to dwell on some of them with many details.
First of all, it is a well-known fact that each nation had its sacred tree, and in Islam, the roots of the tree of life and happiness attained the highest of the celestial sphere, and its branches extend above ground and below (Reat, 1975).
It was believed that the tree has a soul and has a special, peculiar only to it, sacred mystical power. Ancient people believed that trees possess great wisdom and that a person who is able to feel sense of the soul of the tree can learn a lot from it.
Thus, I would like to be a tree of ancient wisdom because people are always looking for it and only wisdom of nature is eternal in spite of everything in the world. The next reason is hidden in the fact that in ancient times, people believed that a man and a tree are similar to communicating vessels. Everything that happens to one affects the other.
Therefore, the tree could be a friend, “twin brother” of a man: it “soaks up” and reflects a person’s soul, everything good and bad, and even everything unknown about the man. Thus, I would like to be a tree that can help people to follow a proper way in the life because, being a twin brother to a man it is possible to show the right way to both spiritual and moral development, reflecting a person’s thoughts, ideas and desires as well as showing the development of human soul.
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In Ancient Greece, leading a good life is rather more complex than it is in today’s society. It is evidenced in Plato’s four dialogs in The Trial and Death of Socrates. Through the dialogues of Socrates we can learn that in Ancient Greece education, religion, society in general, law and values played a major role on a person’s way of living a good life. In the dialogues of The Trial and Death of ...
Moreover, I would like to be a strong tree with dense top, being a place for the rest for people, and a good home for birds and insects. Muhammad said that some plants are blessed as Muslims, especially when the speech is going about palm trees, but I would like to be fig tree because fig tree is a favorite tree of all inhabitants of the Islamic world.
The tree’s abundant fruits have particularly taste, nutritional value, and medicinal properties as well as they serve as a symbol of spiritual and worldly prosperity. So, a perspective to have not only spiritual influence on human mind, but also healing properties seems to be rather interesting and attractive. In conclusion, I have explained the main reasons of my choice to be a tree, and proved the fact that tree is one of the most universal symbols of mankind’s spiritual culture.
As it was previously mentioned, it symbolized the central axis of the world, connecting heaven and earth, the man and his path to spiritual heights, the cycles of life, death and rebirth, the universe and its eternal renewal processes, the hidden wisdom and mysterious laws of existence. So, I would like to combine in myself all these features, being a strong and old tree with powerful quantity of vital energy and allowing people, birds and animals to rest under my branches.
