Winter comes, the leaves are falling

November 22, 2012 9:02am CST
I always have some strange ideas. Look out of the window, you can see the leaves falling from trees. I wonder, does the tree feel pain? Why the tree throws leaves away? Just for live? So, how about us? Is it right to struggle for life no matter what happens to us?
3 responses
• Australia
23 Nov 12
i wish we had winter in philippines like i can see what you talking about tree loosing their leaves...isn't it cool?
24 Nov 12
You can travel to the North and you find it exciting!
@nitinnair89 (2900)
• India
22 Nov 12
Hi. I had once written a poem on the same like how the leaves fall, will those leaves feel pain, what and why this happens, etc. But then i thought that's how it was meant to be, written in fate.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
22 Nov 12
No, the tree doesn't feel pain. Leaf fall is as natural to the tree as going to the toilet is to you. It is the tree's way of getting rid of the 'factories' which have used sunlight to convert water and oxygen into the necessary building blocks for the tree's growth. At the end of the season, waste products and toxins are directed into the leaves and discarded.