If you know anything about fauna and flora, you’ll know that there are certain animals and plant life that are indigenous to a particular area, or country, versus the alien species, or as I like to call them, invasive species. The hostile take-over of aliens (and I’m not talking area 51 here) is the big problem, they take over. Most alien species are invasive, which means they don’t care about the other animal or plant life around, they just take over, no matter what the cost.
Consider the Port Jackson tree.
It is indigenous to Australia, but in other countries is an alien plant. As a child I had one in my garden for many years growing up, and boy did it take over! It grew to be the tallest tree in the garden, but not just that, it completely smothered the surrounding trees to the point that they suffered severely, some even died. The only good I found for this tree was climbing.
I use this example to paint a picture of a very similar scenario to our daily lives. You see, we reluctantly give way to invasive species in our own lives. We allow people to bully us into doing what they want, not what we want and we allow circumstances from our past to invasively affect who we are in our future.
If you have an invasive species trying a hostile take-over in your life, why not take action today! You can use that alien ‘tree’ in your life to climb high above your circumstances, you can use it as wood for the fire. Yes, bad things happen to us, but we can turn it around, we can use these hardships to sharpen us and they can serve as a reminder of where we’ve been, and as a motivation of where we want to go.
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