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HonestPonder t1_j5aoiyz wrote

That is someone using someone else’s corpse to get ahead.

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kenlasalle t1_j5apo8t wrote

This is especially useful if you're a tree.

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Gnoom75 t1_j5aqum0 wrote

So the motivation is one's death is another one's live.

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DylanCO t1_j5ar9tf wrote

BRB gonna go get a new spawn point.

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lavenderlovesarah t1_j5auw6g wrote

Anytime I see things like this in nature it fills me with awe and makes me grateful to live in such a beautiful world

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Hubro_q t1_j5awl8s wrote

"You can always become a Pickle, you can never go back to being a cucumber." - Steve O

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kja029 t1_j5azb4n wrote

Ive seen this awhile back and it has stuck with me. It gives me hope

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Woodworkingwino t1_j5bhd2x wrote

I’m not sure that works with humans the way you are thinking. The image is closer to a baby eating a dead parent to grow.

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YYC9393 t1_j5bhpiy wrote

Just because a tree grew out of a stump, it does not mean “whatever happens in life you can always start over”. Factually incorrect conjecture is not motivating.

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genraq t1_j5biam4 wrote

Perhaps new to this forum but this often reposted image is doctored. The tree stump and sampling are not even the same species

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cowboycat_ily t1_j5bmfve wrote

I mean not really but yay to being optimistic amirite

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UniverseBear t1_j5bmqtv wrote

Yes, if you have the right supports available. Tree stumps CAN go on to live for hundreds of years, but they don't do it alone. They only survive because they are connected to other trees through their root systems and the other trees actively send nutrients to the beleaguered stump.

Humans are not so different. The more supports you have in place the easier it is to fail and begin anew. If you have no supports though it's almost impossible.

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puppyking17 t1_j5bqfae wrote

“There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide disputes by what his ears hear, but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder’s den. They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭11‬:‭1‬-‭9‬ ‭ESV‬‬

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NicoRola000 t1_j5bs0q1 wrote

Not of you die like the tree on the bottom. Lol

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ToughCourse t1_j5bv5as wrote

You can start over after you die? Who knew.

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boca_leche t1_j5bvy4c wrote

No matter what happens. You can count on this getting reposted.

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Birdhawk t1_j5bxhd0 wrote

But that’s not what’s happening here. The motivational quote for this image is actually “no matter what happens, someone could make a baby on top of your corpse”

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M0ndmann t1_j5bxv57 wrote

Im sorry I have to disappoint you, but this is a new tree.

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dodexahedron t1_j5by1zy wrote

So someone can photoshop you and make your life better?

This is clearly a weird photoshop job, unless that new tree is magically super firm and has teeny tiny little leaves.

Shadows are all over the place, too.

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Firepro316 t1_j5c0614 wrote

Ignore the negative bs here. This is a message some people need to see. And often many times more than once.

For those struggling out there, it’s never to late to start again 💕

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aminy23 t1_j5c263s wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,429,234)

On a conventional tree (not palms/monocots) a new ring grow every year which is a well known fact. This is called the cambium layer.

What's lesser known is that the older rings die and the inside of the tree is just dead wood incapable of resprouting.

If a tree is cut down, it can resprout from the roots (suckers) or the cambium layer (water sprouts).

A tree is incapable of resprouting from the center of the stump. Most likely the center rotted away or cracked and a new tree sprouted from seed there.

The center of trees is the first part to rot and often your can have a big living tree that's hollow inside.

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themobwatch t1_j5c596x wrote

am i the only one that is afraid of exactly this? like i know my fears and I use them towards my goals and hopefully most of the times i use my fear in a good way, but how scary it is to know that you could go back to 0 or maybe somewhere in my head there is a certain possibility that you will go to 0 or you will go in a place where it feels like its 0, you have to get up anyway, its who you build yourself into not what you are put through that matters.

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DanteTrd t1_j5c80z0 wrote

I'm going to restart at 80 and go back to my earliest saved file. Boom. Infinite life

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aveindha25 t1_j5c85i9 wrote

Replying to aminy23 (#1,430,785)

Correct however this is clearly photoshopped, this pic gets posted here all the time. Saplings don't have that many branches or leaves. This tree is several years old and shrunk down and photoshopped into the stump.

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Cruchinggo t1_j5c8gu1 wrote

College will say something different :,)

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Electricalbigaloo7 t1_j5cd2ai wrote

I know, once I was shot in the head and died, but thank God I can always start over!

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Rackendoodle t1_j5cfdda wrote

Your wife and kids die in a house fire. Everything you own and all the memorabilia of your loved ones are burned down with them. Your negligence caused the fire.

"No matter what happens in life, you can always start over"

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imdesigner311 t1_j5cg5cl wrote

No matter how many times this gets posted, it can always be posted again

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DarkGengar94 t1_j5ch8gq wrote

Me sitting here as I slowly and scared to bits, as my hearing dies.

Yup starting over is so easy

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KPookz t1_j5chck4 wrote

"200 years of growing, down the drain!"

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ConceivablyWrong t1_j5cjivb wrote

Hi Cormac McCarthy here, actually some mistakes can't be unmade.

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Thorgarthebloodedone t1_j5cm5bw wrote

Should poured some concrete in there now your gonna have to chop it down again eventually.

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jeftru t1_j5cpm72 wrote

Not if you're a paraplegic

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Obiwancuntnobi t1_j5cq1x8 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,431,978)

The only part of a tree that is alive is the outer ring. The center is dead. Long dead. When a stump still has the will to live, it will produce offshoots on the side/base, but absolutely not in the dead center. When this happens, it by a seed that fell into a decomposing center. That part is rather fertile, but dead. This photo in particular is photoshopped, as no seedling has that many limbs and leaves. Critical thinking does remove the hopeful magic.

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Pittedstee t1_j5cqzzm wrote

Humans dont grow after being cut in half.

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ValencourtMusic t1_j5craqj wrote

“No matter what happens in life, you can always stick a branch in a hole.”

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J_n_CA t1_j5cwhsy wrote

Does anyone else see the Deku tree?

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azyoungblood t1_j5cwoed wrote

Or, no matter how mighty you are in life, something will feed on your corpse.

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CyberKnight t1_j5cydy9 wrote

Unless, for some reason, you're not a tree.

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Sherpainer t1_j5cyj6g wrote

...and forever live in the shadow of your peers.

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4rch t1_j5d76k2 wrote

Not really. Can't become an engineer, can't do many many things I wish I had the opportunity to do thanks to my lack of money during my younger years and are now constrained by age.

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Clearskies37 t1_j5d8w22 wrote

I don’t care what tree that is, it’s never going to be strong with shallow roots. It needs good dirt. So when you go through dirt in life, it’s making you stronger.

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the_other_irrevenant t1_j5d9pt7 wrote

What actually happens in this situation as the tree grows? Will it be able to expand and grow with all that dead wood hemming it in?

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FuriouslyListening t1_j5data2 wrote

How do I go back to being a child again? i seem to have lost my human instruction book explaining this.

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TKCerbs t1_j5db37s wrote

No. This is a new tree growing out of an old dead tree. This meme is bullshit and if you’re using this to somehow motivate it’s time to get your head out of your ass.

You get one life. One chance. One attempt to live. You can change course or try new things, but you never get to “start over”. You get to try again, but you’re usually old and wiser. You can never go back, you can never truly try again.

This meme is shit and anyone buying it is a moron. Fix your shit. If your ship is off course then correct it. Fix your life, don’t use garbage like this as some sort of symbolism for who you are.

OP fucking garbage repost.

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the_other_irrevenant t1_j5db8kv wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,431,487)

Often it's not a matter of more vs less pedantic, but rather how familiar a person is with the subject matter. How distracting a flawed analogy is depends on how familiar the reader is with the topic.

If I say to you "If you work hard at it, one day you too can grow from a tiny shack to a magnificent skyscraper" are you going to go "that's just a loose analogy and I feel motivated"? Or are you going to go "Umm, that's not how that works"?

Some readers have as much familiarity with trees as you do with buildings.

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Ilookouttrainwindow t1_j5dd0db wrote

In order to be motivational I feel the imagery has to be somewhat rooted in reality. I get what you are trying to say, but imagery is all wrong as that tree is not regrowing. It may be photoshopped, but let's set that aside. That is clearly brand new tree growing in the bones of the old. This gives off rather parasitic vibe for me as opposed to what you said.

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Revolutionary-Sky370 t1_j5ddol8 wrote

Yeah, a guy at a bar started all over once it was pretty bad he really like his name anyways he now lives in Cuba his wife still thinks he drove his car off a bridge and the cops haven't found anything but the good news is he has a new life thanks to his friend that made the documents

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Revolutionary-Sky370 t1_j5ddwo3 wrote

Unless your putin in which case you may have a bounty on your head and a soon to be revolution/coup starting

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DecalArtist t1_j5de27t wrote

Sooo.... when we screw up we should die and respawn? Wtf kinda AI thought this dumb arse quote up? Life doesn't work that way unless your in a videogame lobby or in this case you're a dead tree who happens to have had a seed land in the Crack of your trunk

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mi5key t1_j5dffi3 wrote

Wait until that stump cutter comes along. Try and start over after that.

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kkb112 t1_j5dgakr wrote

NGL that offshoot tree will not live a healthy life.

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MapedMod t1_j5dj0we wrote

This is a new tree growing our of the old, dead tree.
So better caption would be:
"Grow on the carcass of your ancestors."

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subzero112001 t1_j5dkan1 wrote

Just keep in mind that just because you “start over” does not mean your past no longer exists.

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RedPoliceBox t1_j5dkwlr wrote

That's a trash-plant growing in the stump of a very old tree.

What exactly is the lesson to be learned here?

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rexcannon t1_j5dlgn1 wrote

Start over and steal top posts word for word.

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AcceptableAccount794 t1_j5dof0r wrote

Replying to 1JoMac1 (#1,433,026)

I once saw shoots growing out of a cut log that was sitting in a semi-permanent puddle of water in a ditch. It was pretty cool, as in an "A for effort". I am sure the shoots would never get to be trees, but it was really interesting to see.

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Silver_Confection_57 t1_j5dpzex wrote

Agreed. My ex was a meth head and I grew new roots and pushed her out my tree

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arthur36403640 t1_j5e0sqd wrote

Tell that to the guy that sold his 5 Bitcoins at 50$

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Vascofan46 t1_j5e2e5m wrote

I've seen this picture in a movie but which one? I forgot

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zaitsman t1_j5e2i4f wrote

So not true. Not after HIV, necrotising fasciitis, amputation, paralysis… so many other things

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JackWillamStorm t1_j5e5523 wrote

I’m fairly positive that sapling growing is a different species to the stump…

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thunderroid t1_j5eaynu wrote

I am curious, is that the same tree or a different tree?

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NoCareBear1 t1_j5ebqwc wrote

No u cant, if u were literally starting over ud have to come out of a womb as a infant again and that isnt possible.

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cloud8100 t1_j5ebyan wrote

Apparently this image is fake, but the colours are gorgeous.

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UncertainMorale t1_j5efey4 wrote

Not really, that small tree has no space to grow. It will die.

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snoopervisor t1_j5eitx8 wrote

The tree isn't starting over. It's a new tree growing on a corpse of an old one. Not so motivating at all.

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snoopervisor t1_j5ej84b wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,429,234)

There are no buds to sprout off of inside a trunk. Plants can sprout from roots, or bark, but not from inside of the trunk. This is literally dead wood inide. All it does is transport water up.

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Ittakesawile t1_j5ek9uu wrote

Replying to aminy23 (#1,430,785)

Good information!!

Your statement about the cambium layer is not completely true, but really close. Not all of each new ring every year is cambium (it was at one point, but no necessarily during that growing season). Your rings come from a old xylem cells that no longer function due to age. The cambium layer is the living part of the tree and is very very small. It will end up creating a new ring, but it isn't necessarily a ring itself.

Only certain trees will resprout at all. Very few conifers will resprout after being cut down. One example of a conifer that will resprout are the redwood trees. However, almost all deciduous hardwood trees will resprout. Most will either sprout from the roots (suckers) OR the stump (from the sapwood, doesn't have to necessarily be the cambium layer) but most trees will usually not sprout from both. Some do, however, such as Ailanthus (one of the most invasive trees in the US). That feature about ailanthus helps it become as invasive and hard to kill as it is.

You are correct that a tree cannot resprout from the center of the stump (heartwood) because it is long dead.

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NeciG12 t1_j5ele6l wrote

If it's meant to be - its meant To BE 💚💙💛🧡❤

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Bean_Juice_Brew t1_j5ep5vg wrote

More like "even after you die, someone will try to take advantage of you." That ain't the same tree growing there.

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wnuni46 t1_j5esjrr wrote

I mean, I guess it is possible but I don’t think it is very likely.

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Active-Sky-M31 t1_j5f664p wrote

Can you tag r/photoshop so they can remove the unnatural background. ;)

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Phazing_Hornet t1_j5f6aor wrote

I mean I don't know what the hell is going on but I am not going to be the tree on the bottom.

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RubbyPanda t1_j5f77it wrote

How do I start over from my chronic debilitating illness that leaves me bed bound and doesn't allow me to even think too much without consequences

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Warriordan44 t1_j5hnutl wrote

That thing gonna destroy itself eventually..

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mo-amine75 t1_j5k2ir2 wrote

except you don't believe in your self.

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Beginning-Middle6232 t1_j5n27ps wrote

I feel like that is me. Grew where I could, was part of an ending and moving on.

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