It could have been a lot worse, yes, in that respect I was lucky. At first, I said to my partner, "We should cut down that tree and turn it into table tops, then we can make money from it too!". But of course that is not allowed, and after a day I decided that the tree could not help it either. It had been there for many years before I was even born. So instead of getting angry at the tree, I still admire it every day and I am happy that I can at least enjoy a little bit of nature around me. That is a lot more difficult for many Dutch people. Nature is so important to us, even if the feeling of "being one with nature" sometimes turns out to be a bit painful if you try to take it too literally.
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I'm glad you forgave the tree, it was just minding its own business after all. I wonder if it tells its tree friends about that time it had a vertical splat with a human though. 🤔
I am sure that tree has told every tree in the area about it. Every time I walk past it I hear the branches rustling as if they are laughing at me. The ones that are close by make the same noise, every tree on the forest path seems to be laughing at me. My partner always says that it is fairly windless there and that he never hears that kind of noise. So it must be that those trees are laughing at me. Luckily they have not changed position so another splat is almost impossible. But never say never!
Those trees are definitely laughing...but that's ok, it's nice to know they still have something to laugh at despite how humans treat nature.