Life is like a tree in that it needs to gain right nutrients and keep growing to flourish without withering away, a process that happens to the benefit and misbenefit of it's branches. How you understand yourself is how you also understand your friends and foes alike, what they seek from their successes and failures, and how your leaves touch with their's in their eternal purpose to survive.

A short story about the life of a civilization that struggles to overcome it's greatest nemesis: Primal egocentrism.