We are our roots to an extent. To know the nature of our origin can help empower us to guide the growth of our future selves.

But at some point we need to break out from the thicket of the past, using the foundation of the network of roots to reach upwards into the open air, and blossom towards light.

If we don’t, we risk wrapping back in and around ourselves, becoming gnarled in a twisted knot never rising far from the dirt.