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Oct. 21st, 2004 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
artemisdart530) Ever read the children's story "The Giving Tree"?
The tree loves a boy, and she gives and gives and gives to him. She gives her flowers, her fruits, her leaves, her bark, she lets him build a swing and carve his initials into her flesh. Eventually the boy grows up and goes away, but she still loves him. Then the boy comes back and chops her down to use for wood. And even after that, the stump that's left loves the boy and lets him sit on her when he's old and tired.
This was always a horrifying story to me. The relationship was so one-sided. I guess the point of the story is that love isn't fair.
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thaernulie wrote: Yeah, that story meant a lot to me in highschool, since it was a near-perfect description of how I felt about every guy I had a crush on then. Not something I'd want to read to my children, though...
The tree loves a boy, and she gives and gives and gives to him. She gives her flowers, her fruits, her leaves, her bark, she lets him build a swing and carve his initials into her flesh. Eventually the boy grows up and goes away, but she still loves him. Then the boy comes back and chops her down to use for wood. And even after that, the stump that's left loves the boy and lets him sit on her when he's old and tired.
This was always a horrifying story to me. The relationship was so one-sided. I guess the point of the story is that love isn't fair.
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thaernulie wrote: Yeah, that story meant a lot to me in highschool, since it was a near-perfect description of how I felt about every guy I had a crush on then. Not something I'd want to read to my children, though...
