Globalize a tree We are little seeds that grew in the land of globalization. In the beginning

we don’t understand this world (perhaps we will never understand it). We pass

through the big lights of the city and feel like we were only one seed. I wanted to

be a big tree, but the lights overshadow my growing.

We cannot stop the future but we can stop our past. Look at the word

globalization (globalize a nation) for me, this is the real meaning. We became

smaller and smaller and they became the big trees. It seems that one day we

were the big nation and it was our time to globalize. However we made other

soils to dry and the little seeds to cry. Like they said: “What comes around goes

around”, now, look at us now? We are being silence. The world is unstable; the

money made it this way. But what can we do?

Perhaps if we globalize a tree, things could get better… And what is that,

you may ask? A tree represents life, strength and overcoming so many

adversities. The strong branches inspired me… A tree accepts all races and all

types of weather. There are stubborn trees that persist in growing even in the

places where there are not conducive conditions to grow. How can a being, that

doesn’t express any kind of sound, be like that? They are really an example to

the entire world. So my suggestion is to globalize a tree. To put in every bus

stations, Times Square, Piccadilly Circus, on TV commercials, in our clothes a

tree. What the world needs, at this moment, is a symbol of union and something

that overcomes every day obstacles.

The tree represents also the diversity of choices that we can follow in our

life; we can discover the true meaning of life if we globalize it! A single tree

planted in our homes can catch our attention, perhaps if we look to the green

leafs that bring us hope and the brown branches that connect us to the entire

world…

So globalize a tree.

Maria Beatriz Andrade. Nº19. 12ºC.

15th March 2012.