“Nature doesn’t prove anything.
It doesn’t doubt whether it’s worthy.
It just is.
Only we tie worth
to effort, outcome, and validation.”
A tree doesn’t ask,
“Am I growing well enough?”
It just grows.
A bird doesn’t sing for approval.
It sings because it can.
Nothing else in nature doubts its place.
Only we do.
We measure ourselves
by what we finish,
what we achieve,
what we can show.
We chased proof, approval, applause —
thinking they would make us feel worthy.
But they were never the source of it.
We try to earn our worth —
when it was never gone.
We try to prove we matter —
when we already do.
A tree doesn’t have thoughts —
but it knows how to grow.
A bird doesn’t have goals —
but it knows how to sing.
They don’t need to earn their place.
They are their place.
We, too, are creatures.
Not higher. Not lower.
Just different.
But thinking made us chase things.
“We have a brain — not to prove ourselves,
but to understand ourselves.”
We don’t have to become like nature.
We already belong to it.
“And nature never questions
it’s worth.“
— Jayasudha
unspoken, still