14 Timeless Ways To Get Back Your Perspective When You’re Overwhelmed

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The question is simple, do you tree or not?

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Because I Tree. I Tree as often as possible.

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Because with the world being as it is sometimes I have to get out.

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I have to find a place that’s calm.

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A place with voices I don’t have to understand.

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Where I don’t have to talk or be heard.

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Where I don’t have to be surrounded by expectations or think about my own.

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Because sometimes you just need to run away to where things are effortlessly awesome and, for a while, take shelter under something older than you, something that will outlive you. Sometimes perspective can only be found in the timeline of a life counted in generations, not years. And that’s where trees come in. They were there for me as a kid to hide under and play in and they’re there for me now. Thought Catalog Logo Mark

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