My prompt from Greenpop, for my Givengain project to raise
Trees for Zambia, was to relive my favourite tree memory. But in actual fact, I
should be terrified of trees.
When I was about seven years old, my aunt and uncle had
built a look-out over a dam on their farm. It was about 7 m high, in a tree. A
friend and I went up to check out the view, while my uncle was putting a few
planks together. I stepped on a plank that was not quite fixed to the structure
yet and plummeted those seven meters out of the look out. I landed in a thorn
bush, with a thorn in my neck. That thorn bush saved my life. My guardian
angels too. I now have a fear of heights, not trees.
Also in my young years,I had another terrifying incident
with a tree. We were a group of kids that lived on our street and would all
play together during holidays. One day we had gone with a friend’s mom to some
place. We were about four or five kids playing around an old, big tree, swinging
on its branches and just being kids. The next we know, the tree starts falling
over. IT FELL ON MY HEAD! And I had to get two staples in my head for the
gaping hole.
But I’m still not scared of trees. And you shouldn’t be
either. You should also not be scared to donate money to grow trees, which you
can do here!
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