I always feel bad wasting paper, like I'm killing a tree
Not me. My father was killed by a tree.
I'm
not kidding. He was out hiking one day when, by a one in a million
chance, one just decided to come down and landed on him, killing him
instantly. At least I like to imagine it was instantly. I guess there's
no real way to be sure.
That was the real problem with the
incident, that I wasn't there when it happened, so I've never really
fully understood what happened to him. I was pretty young at the time,
and was angry about it for a lot of years. Back then for lack of a
better idea I blamed the tree for falling on him, and I wanted to take
it out on them. Eye for and eye and all that.
I'd go into the
backyard, where we had this huge old tree, I forget what type, and I'd
just attack it with everything I had and anything I could find. My
mother was so mad at me, for hurting the tree, and usually breaking
whatever I was attacking it with too. We went through a lot of garden
tools like that.
She'd always be a minute late to stop me
though. I think even though she hated me doing it, she thought it was
better I got it out of my system somehow, if I was that angry.
The
funny thing is I did end up killing the tree. All the damage to it's
bark made it susceptible to some kind of wood beetle, and within a year
it was gone.
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