Are we like leaves on a tree fighting for space and sunlight?

Question

I mean ultimately we are all from the same source and interconnected and have deep love for each other but we are forced to fight for space, freedom and resources even though we don't want to because we are all part of the same tree. But we just have to.

Answer 1

It's an interesting analogy, but humans are more aggressive and capable of more violent behaviour than leaves on a tree. We are more like meerkats (did you watch Meerkat Manor?) fighting for territory and hunting ground, willing to fight and kill our enemies in the fight for it.
But in one sense your comparison is apt. We are like the leaves and flowers that 'flourish and blossom' and then quickly wither, die and fall to the ground. Such is life.

Answer 2

It would be interesting to note that leaves are not fixed in their positions, and they always face towards light. The leaves on a tree wave and dance as gentle breeze passes through them; they shift and slide in and out of the shadows if there are shadows, also allowing the sunlight to reach other leaves. This is the fact we commonly observe in general nature around us. Then the question is, are we human beings like this? Are we flexible enough to shift and allow others benefit from what we find beneficial, or we just try to keep other minds in shadows, in ignorance, with our own rigid opinions and for the purpose of our own good?

Then it also essential to all leaves that they always face towards the sun, whatever as place they might be on the hierarchy of a tree they always face towards the sun, or like a palm stretched for light. And do we always face towards the light of truth in our lives, or we are often prone to turn away from truth when we find this to be most convenient?

Where we share many common characteristics with the general nature, but there are also many differences. This is the fact that requires consideration, and necessitates a search for a better comparison for human nature. There is one thing, however, that I like to mention here and that is in observing nature we must be accurate otherwise we would be losing sight of some very basic and universal fact in its existence.

I personally find that trees are better and much accurate an analogy for human nature. If you have read about Amazon rain forests then you would know that trees fight fiercely for their places on the forest floor to grow, and it is only when an old tree is felled leaving a opening in the forest canopy allowing the light to reach the ground than the new ones find a chance to sprout. When fully grown, however, a tree is an amazing thing in nature. It is harmless to the environment and beneficial for the forest in which it finds its roots in, and productive to the maximum level of efficiency for its own purpose; a tree is also a perfect habitat for many other creatures like birds, insects and animals.

But the most amazing thing about trees is that they send their roots deep into damp, dank and dark soil to extract water and other nutrients, and at the same time they extend their branches up into the air to absorb light in the thin air – an amazing combination of the grossest from the earth below and lightest from the skies above that trees live on. Do we have any such capability?

Answer 3

Not in my case. I am quite alone most of the time, and I live in sunny Spain, so I have plenty of both, but I feel terribly lonely very often, yarning to be cocooned on a tree with lots more leaves around me.

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

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... I mean yes.... yes we are.... if by "space and sunlight" you mean shelter, food and sex.

Answer 6

wow heavy, but yea

Answer 7

i suppose you could say that

Answer 8

you have said it all

Answer 9

Please grow. You answered your own question.