Few pictures of freedom and limits

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Walking around in the garden I came across few pictures that challenged my thinking today morning.

A picture of saplings being prepared for replanting. Kept within a plastic container, being nourished, and grown till a day and place where it can be replanted. To be plated in a place where it will find space and freedom to grow to its full potential. Today it is limited but tomorrow it will no longer be because it will be where it can send out it deep roots, grow tall and spread its branches tall and wide.

The limits today are for freedom tomorrow. Freedom to rise above the challenges of this life, a higher perspective from a growth into the skies. That tall tree is stable because of the deep roots it has. The growth of the roots is unlimited because of its strategic location that allows depth.

But some limitations are intentional. Intentionally caged in to protect from danger, like these two pets. Cute and loveable but their limits set in to protect them from other animals who could threaten their life. That freedom is not without its challenges. They had to be washed cleaned fed and taken care of. The efforts put in because of the mutual love one enjoys. But there will be a day when all these would end, leaving only memories of a life well lived through paths well-trodden.




But hopefully these lives that have moved on has left a legacy. A legacy of love and relationships that has left to unlimited growth in many other lives.




  

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