The Banyan Tree

Hello guys! I am going to share one of the most memorable stories of my childhood. We used to have a big banyan tree with branches coming all the way down to the ground. These branches were so flexible that you can swing around them and feel to be a real-life Tarzan. The tree was located near a Lord Shiva temple where we used to celebrate the Shivratri festival every year.

For us, being kids, the festival was mainly to go to the banyan tree and play around with cousins for the whole day. As I grew old, I realized my relationship with the tree. This was a tree which used to make me wait for the whole year so that we can go and play around it, use it as a swing and cherish around for the whole day.

As time passed, I realized that it was not actually the festival but the charm of the tree that used to make us wait for a specific day. I realized it more when I was unable to go to the tree on the festivals because of college and then job.

But still when I go around the tree whenever I am at home, I feel like a kid because it is the tree that has seen my stupid acts as a kid. The branches I used to play with are now proper roots and serving the tree as a strong support. There are new branches now which make the childhood of the kids now, a memorable moment.

Maybe I never realized the importance of the tree until I grew old or may be the kids playing with new branches don’t realize what the tree is giving them. But I am sure once they grow up like me and they don’t get the time to play around the tree, the tree will make them feel like a kid when they come back to it after years, and then, they will understand the importance of the tree in their lives like me.

Because the tree is giving them lifetime memories, which none can create or buy, memories are just these moments, they just happen.

There might be such a tree around you, try to find your memory around it, and try to serve it in a way that our new generation gets a fair chance to build their memories around it.