tree fall day
In the garden of my friend’s house, there was a tall tree that I always looked at every time I visited, I saw it a different tree from any other one they owned. This tree fell on the day of her father’s death, precisely before his death in an insignificant amount of time. With its fall, it gave a signal of what would happen, as if it announced the beginning of a new stage. For this family home on the death of the father. This event jumped into my mind when I recently read the Arabic translation of the novel “The Fall of the Poplar” by the famous feminist and writer Sevgi Soysal, which has been translated from Turkish into Arabic.
I couldn’t help but imagine Sevgi’s symbolism when she expressed that something had happened with a tree falling, everyone was interested, wrapped around the tree, the tree would fall and we all know it, but what are the implications of the fall. The tree takes on the life of a person, the writer’s pen marks people who stood around the poplar tree, as my eyes monitored my friend’s family and I imagined myself for a while writing about this family, their lives, and about that moment when they rushed to the tree that tilted and fell to precede their father to death. Are all stories suitable to take wisdom from them? I can answer without hesitation and with complete certainty: Yes, even if we do not understand the meaning at the moment, we will understand it at a moment when our mind can comprehend the story.
This is what happened to me, my friend contacted me, and after greetings and a question about the situation, I asked her about the tree. She remembered the day her father died. We joined in praying for him with mercy. Then she told me with pain that this tree was strangely associated with her father, because he planted it and took care of it without the trees of the garden that he left his command For the gardener, perhaps the father knew the extent of her connection to him and his destiny, the connection between them was emotional, human.
It is true that the father did not know the exact meaning of the link between them, but what my friend told me made me reach a conclusion, but reaching this conclusion was linked to knowing the whole story.
The meaning behind stories is a fixed principle that cannot be separated from the story itself, and the ability to derive meanings is something that not everyone is good at and requires great training in order to reach it, and some may feel confused and confused when they cannot reach the true meaning, but who said that every story has one meaning In the journey of searching for meaning there are many ways, the reader chooses one of them and walks him until he reaches his concept, and by moving from one meaning to another, our vision of life is formed.
Trees are like humans, the effects of life appear on it in the same way, wrinkles, so I do not exaggerate if I say that the tree felt the imminence of the death of its owner, so it had to fall, voluntarily abandoning life in order to share death with the one you love so that the children start planting their own trees related to them.
My friend cut off my train of thoughts and asked me when the tree came to my mind so urgently that I called her specifically to ask about it. The garden and smiled when I knew her answer.
* A Saudi writer and novelist.
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