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**I walked by this tree and noticed this leaf. Why this leaf? I don't know, probably because the light hit it just right.** This leaf is like the others on this tree. They all have the same purpose and that is to provide for the tree by converting solar energy into chemical energy or food. They want the same thing because without the tree they all die. They depend on the tree to give them what they need. When the wind blows too hard they depend on the branches to hold on to them.

When this leaf turns brown and dies, the tree won't die, it won't be hurt and it won't have a funeral. There will be no wake. The other leaves will have no remorse for their fallen friend. This leaf will be replaced and forgotten, and it will become just another leaf on the ground. People will walk on it, decomposers will decompose it, or it will be raked up from someone's lawn and put in a black trash bag and thrown away. Its purpose on the tree had been fulfilled, and it got out of the way so another leaf could take its place.


 * How is this like our society? ** Every person is born with a purpose on this earth. If you are not doing what you are purposed to do, the wind might blow and you might just fall off the tree, and what I mean by "fall off the tree" is you die and then you are replaced by one of the billions of people on the planet.

This tree is a well oiled machine; it's like a business. When one of it workers can't produce anymore they are fired and sent home. The tree then hires another worker and the business keeps working. Some trees close down for about 3 months and they fire all of their workers. After the 3 months is over, the tree hires new workers and it starts from scratch. In the leaf community, they call this period **//Winter//**. Trees need the basics. They need water, air and other nutrients. If they don't get these things then it is hard for them to strive and they can't produce. If this business was to suddenly go bankrupt, or if it couldn't find the equilibrium spot on the supply and demand curve in the market, then thousands of leaves would be out of a job. They would be homeless without a tree to live on.