A tree with thousands memories

                      When a tree speaks 

Sometimes rather than people things , objects and other existing entities hold memories more concretely. Am from Kolkata , and there is a tree in my hometown. I consider that tree as an extended part of mine because that tree is not only a tree, that tree is a metaphor of happenings that took place in my life before leaving the city. The tree was with me always when I had nobody to talk to about how I feel when I was going through something. That tree saw every phase of my life. 

The tree was rooted beside a highway named Belghoria ExpressWay. There were a lot more trees along with it but I got attracted to that particular tree because I found a connection between me and that tree. The connection is , one day I was so upset due to some reason and I went to that place and started watching the tree and I noticed that the tree had not a single leaf at that time. Then it struck my mind that just like me , the tree is also not in its 100% today. After that whenever I came back to the tree I found something similar between us. With time the tree became part of me. The tree became one of my closest ones in my teenage years. 

Recently one of my closest teenage memory was taken from me and that is the tree. The tree is no longer there because as the tree was beside the high road the tree was cutted down for making the extension of the road. Not only that tree , a few more trees were cut down because of our development. And nowadays this is a common story that trees are cut down for development but this is exceptional because they not only cutted a tree they cut my teenage, brutally.

It is estimated that around 15 billion trees are cut down globally each year, which averages to approximately 41 million trees per day. These numbers can fluctuate based on a variety of environmental and economic factors. The study by the journal Nature estimated that nearly 42,000,000 trees are cut down daily. Most of the 90’s kids have some memories related to a tree as they have that opportunity to grow up in touch of nature. We all are paying the price with this ecological and environmental loss for our so-called development. Our childhood and teenage years are getting deprived from us.