It was in a Kauri forest near Dargaville, NZ, that I had a... communication with one of them trees.
It was in May 2012 and I wasn't climate-aware yet.

I touched its bark for a while. Then I asked it to tell me how it is to stay at one place for a thousand years. When no answer came, I told it how it is to move around, to see different things every moment, to move the legs, to sit on a train and look out the window at the landscape rushing by etc. I told it in thought images. Not in words.

I kept my hand on its bark a while longer.
Then I realised I had to pee somewhat urgent and turned away to walk back to the parking lot.

After 10 steps or so, I noticed how my legs became heavier and heavier. I could hardly move them at all, anymore. It felt like something was holding me back, psychologically. I kept walking. Very slowly. And a bit scared because I didn't know what was happening and I was alone in the forest and had to pee and...

Then I thought, maybe the crazy thing happened and the tree is speaking to me in such a way that it shows me how it is when you can't move...

I'm not an esoteric or a Harry-Potter-type of person. I'm an IT professional, for god's sake.

But I stopped walking. I turned around to face the tree again. And in my mind, I thanked it for the insight, and asked it to please let me go now. Because I'm a thing that has to move and can't stay in one place for a thousand years.

Turning around, walking a few more steps: still heavy and difficult. A few more steps... then it got easier.
And after yet more steps, it was normal again.

#Kauri #NewZealand #Treehugger #WeirdestMoment

#4000isTheLimit😁

It was in a Kauri forest near Dargaville, NZ, that I had a... communication with one of them trees.
It was in May 2012 and I wasn't climate-aware yet.

I touched its bark for a while. Then I asked it to tell me how it is to stay at one place for a thousand years. When no answer came, I told it how it is to move around, to see different things every moment, to move the legs, to sit on a train and look out the window at the landscape rushing by etc. I told it in thought images. Not in words.

I kept my hand on its bark a while longer.
Then I realised I had to pee somewhat urgent and turned away to walk back to the parking lot.

After 10 steps or so, I noticed how my legs became heavier and heavier. I could hardly move them at all, anymore. It felt like something was holding me back, psychologically. I kept walking. Very slowly. And a bit scared because I didn't know what was happening and I was alone in the forest and had to pee and...

Then I thought, maybe the crazy thing happened and the tree is speaking to me in such a way that it shows me how it is when you can't move...

I'm not an esoteric or a Harry-Potter-type of person. I'm an IT professional, for god's sake.

But I stopped walking. I turned around to face the tree again. And in my mind, I thanked it for the insight, and asked it to please let me go now. Because I'm a thing that has to move and can't stay in one place for a thousand years.

Turning around, walking a few more steps: still heavy and difficult. A few more steps... then it got easier.
And after yet more steps, it was normal again.

#Kauri #NewZealand #Treehugger #WeirdestMoment

#4000isTheLimit😁