[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”About” _builder_version=”4.16″ use_background_color_gradient=”on” background_color_gradient_stops=”#ffffff 86%|#f4f4f4 100%” background_color_gradient_start=”#ffffff” background_color_gradient_start_position=”86%” background_color_gradient_end=”#f4f4f4″ custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”18px||10vw||false|false” bottom_divider_style=”waves” bottom_divider_color=”#ffffff” bottom_divider_height=”10vw” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|0px|0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ header_font=”||||||||” header_2_font=”Prompt|200|||||||” header_2_font_size=”60px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” header_4_font=”Prompt|600||on|||||” header_4_font_size=”14px” header_4_letter_spacing=”2px” header_4_line_height=”1.2em” z_index=”1″ text_orientation=”center” max_width=”800px” module_alignment=”center” header_2_font_size_tablet=”40px” header_2_font_size_phone=”25px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_orientation_tablet=”left” text_orientation_phone=”” text_orientation_last_edited=”on|desktop” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”25px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ text_font=”||||||||” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” module_alignment=”center” custom_padding=”1px||||false|false” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”14px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Dear onions readers,<\/strong><\/p>\n Today I would like to share something I have observed in many of the men I dated.<\/p>\n It is about human nature, about masculine nature and feminine nature.<\/p>\n About compatibility between two human beings.<\/p>\n Because I have learned that you can deeply like another person, and still not be compatible with them.<\/p>\n This is my experience.<\/p>\n Man the hunter finds prey, chases it, bites into it, consumes it.<\/p>\n I am not prey. A man may rest in my shade, feed on my fruit, warm himself with the fire made from my fallen branches, shelter beneath me from sun and storm.<\/p>\n Few hunters understand this.<\/p>\n Most bite me. They hurt themselves even more.<\/p>\n And more than the broken teeth and bruised fists, it is the ego that suffers.<\/p>\n I remain still and watch him.<\/p>\n This foolish man.<\/p>\n He nearly destroyed himself trying to tear off a single branch.<\/p>\n Can he not see that I am a tree?<\/p>\n I am not prey. Foolish man.<\/p>\n He wishes to see me run, so that he may chase me, hunt me, devour me.<\/p>\n Foolish man! Have you ever seen a tree run? Even if I wanted to, just to satisfy you, because I pity you there in your humiliation, I could not.<\/p>\n My roots forbid it.<\/p>\n They hold me to the earth. A tree.<\/p>\n \n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever see a tree run? No? Then don’t ask it to.\u00a0 Dear onions readers, Today I would like to share something I have observed in many of the men I dated. It is about human nature, about masculine nature and feminine nature. About compatibility between two human beings. Because I have learned that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peeling-me-tender","category-the-dark-side-of-the-onion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparklingonion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I am a tree.<\/p>\n
They hurt themselves, so they kick me.
Then they punch me.<\/p>\n
I am shelter.
I am nourishment.
I am time.<\/p>\n
Have you ever seen a tree afraid?<\/p>\n
They prevent me from becoming anything other than what I am.<\/p>\n