I was told this is a question a psychologist might ask to evaluate a person's state of mind. I was never told what answers would be the healthiest.

How would you answer this question?

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This one I like!! Many years ago I had a freind who would talk to trees and each one would represent someone in his life. He would describe characteristics of the person and the tree that fit...it was wonderful and interesting... I personally see much the same about a person and a tree. As a metaphor a tree symbolizes growth and blooming and forming a firm root and being strong... and soaking in energy and light to make us stronger. As we grow we shelter others as we become stronger and deep rooted in what is inporatant and have gotten the nourishment (nutritionally and spiritually) that we require for our growth. We also go through stages in our physical life which is similar to the spring, summer, winter and fall of a tree. There are many seasons in our life and many changes and after each we should grow stronger and grow firmer and more resiliant like the great oak..unless we let the disease (dis- ease) of the change take us over. This was a very good posting LK!!!

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Both circulate fluids through their bodies and do an oxygen-carbon dioxide exchange.
Both grow and are generally capable of reproduction.
Both eventually die.

(I'm also wondering what a "healthy" answer would consist of...)

Both are firmly rooted in the earth, and yet reaching for the sky.

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I have met quite a few people who were not rooted at all. And others who have no reach.... sad, really.

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A friend of mine who studied psychology asked me this question several years ago. My answer was that humans and trees, we both living entities.

She gave me a strange look and never told me what the best answers were.

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Well, since she was studying psychology, it is unlikely to be something as prosaic as "both have trunks and branching limbs." Then again, as trees have no psychology at all (at least none that I'm aware of) one supposes that she's merely doing a variety of Rorschatz (ink blot) test. How we process unlikely things is something psychologist like to think they can interpret. I'm not always sure they can.

(As I recall, every ink blot I ever looked at reminded me of sex. But then I was a weird kid. )

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Both are living things and both live for many years, enduring years and storms, flood and fire as well as they may.

I believe both have souls (and no, I cannot prove it; it's a belief purely and simply).

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I think you are right it's a kind of a Rorsharch test. An Ha Ha on the sex with ink blots. Ink turns me on too, maybe that's why I sell printing.

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What Do A Tree and a Human Have In Common?

If you cut both of them in half, one can tell how old they are.

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