The Big Tree
Once, there existed a big, strong and old tree, the wisest of them all because it was the one that has lived the most. One day a little boy was playing near it, he was having a picnic there, and all the garbage he made he left it there on the ground, like a piece of cake over there, a bag of potato chips and a bottle of coca cola, something that the tree didn't like; always a lot of kids sit there and play but always leave the packages of their food there and never cleaned it, so the tree was sick of that attitude, the only thing they were doing was helping them with oxygen and humans paid him back by making him feel sick by leaving him dirty.
As a result, this time the tree woke up and talked to the kid so that he would stop being that irresponsible with his garbage. “Oh boy! It feels so good to wake up” the tree said “THE TREE IS TALKING!” The boy freaked out immediately, "Man, a tree, a plant was talking and moving, how in the world was that possible?”
After the tree had explained everything to the little boy and he stopped shouting, the tree and the boy hung out for a while, the tree told him about its life experience as the oldest tree in that park, the boy wondered how to be a tree was.
Also they talked about the damage the humans are causing to the nature, the tree explained to the boy what would happen if they didn't start taking care of the planet earth, and it also told him how angry their mother was now that the global warming, was in a high level.
They both had a good time together, but the little boy had to leave, but before that the tree asked him for a favor, to keep the park clean, with that the boy would help a lot to the planet and would try to not to pollute it, with baby steps he can help, the boy promised he would do everything in his power to stop contamination, so with that the tree went back to its heavy and long sleep.
The next day, the boy returned to the park, excited to see his friend, the tree, but he found out that the tree was “murdered” by some workers, so the boy was devastated, but he had a promise to keep, he had to stop deforestation, trees are giving oxygen and humans are killing them!, so what the boy did was something nobody had imagined...
The little boy started to plant a lot of trees, near his house, back in the park, in his school, everywhere, because there has to be a balance between the nature and the industrial development, and that was what he did, he made that balance possible in his neighborhood.
One day, the boy was in the park taking care of the trees and he felt a blow of wind that told him “You have done it well little boy, I'm proud”, the boy recognized that voice...
By Andrés Argel, Step 9
