Our ties

07/02/2025 Nilson Lattari

We currently hold memories from our past. These memories are lessons we have forged throughout this journey called life. It is a journey filled with sweet moments, but at times it can feel sharp and challenging. Both aspects are shaped by the good and bad moments we have experienced.
The past is an insidious ghost that haunts our present, or it may be a book of heroism and achievements that teaches us to move forward in life. When we are young, our moments are full of energy and hope as we prepare our future. For young people, their future often appears as a clear and clean horizon, where clouds are mere distractions, and rain and storms do not exist.
We are like trees growing in the void, striving to plant a forest shaped by our hands. However, this forest is also structured by fear, as undesirable plants grow alongside it. These undesirable plants represent beings that thwart our dreams.
It is heartbreaking to realize that our dreams sometimes become the oppressors of our present moments! As we expand our forests, we must not forget the shortcuts that help us to navigate around the obstacles in search of the best way forward. When we need to confront reality it’s like finding an unknown door in our own forest, crowded with everything from our past.
Even the light piercing through the leaves cannot fully illuminate our journey. At times, we must destroy some of the trees we have planted to continue. These trees represent ruined dreams, failed projects, and ghosts like invasive plants.
It is heartbreaking to destroy these trees using the same material they were made from! Our worst projects are like wildfires, destroying everything around us. After this fire, it is time to renew our forests, allowing flowers to bloom and make our journey less difficult.
Our forests are dense and dark, with trails marked by strange beings on the hard ground. They embody our present moments, which are full of hardships that must be manipulated carefully to avoid deepening our wounds.
Dreams sometimes scare us, and only the adventurers and the ambitious dare to plant them. Some of us are hesitant to set up forests, doubting our imagination. We cannot envision dense, green forests full of life if we use our energy to create safe and calm gardens instead.
There are those who cannot create forests because they live in forests that belong to others. They always be the pawns of the dreamers complaining forever about their undesirable lives. They will present many reasons not to create forests of their own, even when these forests could be simple woods, remembered as achievements tied to their past.