"Who do you lean on when the weight of life is too much for you to stand by yourself?"

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A stand of pines grow in the yard part of our farm. Their limbs have grown together. Also in our yard was one pine growing by itself.

A snowfall came and the ice and snow lay heavy on the branches of those pines, so heavy that the weight bent their branches down toward the ground, so low in fact that in the stand of pines, the branches from one tree were on the trunk and branches of another, but none of the branches broke because the trees leaned their branches on one another.

The pine that stood by itself didn’t do as well. There were no other trees to lean against so the lone pine's branches became so heavy they broke off. So many of them broke off that we had to cut the tree down.

We have each other to journey with in life. Together we’re stronger and live longer than any one of us by ourselves. Who do you lean on when the weight of life is too much for you to stand by yourself? Listen to your life and make a life with the people in your life, not just a living.

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