I was re-reading Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. And this image was born from the impressions of Prince Andrei at a meeting with an old oak.
This oak was a full-fledged character, a symbol of the "Circle of Life", when looking at it in the fall, many fall into depression, forgetting that in the spring everything will come to life and Life will be painted with new colors...
We are now going through a difficult period in the "Life of Humanity" ... But "The Old Oak will Bloom" is sure...
Excerpts from the novel "War and Peace".
Oak in autumn
“Spring, and love, and happiness! - as if said this oak. “And how do you not get tired of the same stupid senseless deceit! Everything is the same, and everything is a lie! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness. There, look, crushed dead fir trees are sitting, always the same, and there I spread my broken, peeled fingers, wherever they grew - from the back, from the sides. As you have grown, so I stand, and I do not believe your hopes and deceptions."
Oak in spring
"The old oak tree, all transformed, spread out like a tent of juicy, dark greenery, was thrilled, slightly swaying in the rays of the evening sun. No clumsy fingers, no sores, no old grief and distrust - nothing was visible. Juicy, young leaves broke through the hundred-year-old hard bark without knots, so that it was impossible to believe that it was the old man who produced them. “Yes, this is the same oak tree,” thought Prince Andrei, and an unreasonable spring feeling of joy and renewal suddenly came over him."
