Humans: When a baby is born, it struggles to deal with the lack of constant food and attention that it doesn't know it has been receiving all this time. It grows despite the struggles, and has more struggles but is less affected by them, except for when it is a sensitive situation. When a person is older, they too are affected by problems but have learned to take it in stride from their years of experience. Nevertheless, when a constant stream of problems rolls in, the person weakens and eventually dies. Nature: When a tree is very small, it struggles to compete with the wind that it had never experienced before. The tree pushes upward even though the wind doesn't want it to. As it grows, the branches and trunk grow stronger and are less affected by smaller winds, except for some branches which grow weaker and thinner. When a tree is older, it has learned to withstand the wind, but sometimes winds come too strong and constantly and the branches fall off one by one, until the tree finally collapses and dies.

Humans: When there is a problem too difficult to solve, we find a way to go around, somehow, some way. We leave the problem there, but we have paved a solution around it for someone else to discover and follow as they encounter it. Someday we may get strong enough to push through it, and it will become many smaller problems that we can easily solve. Nature: When there is a strong log blocking a stream or river, the water always finds a way to go around/above/below. The land erodes away, leaving a path for the next water that encounters it to take. When there is lots of rain and it floods, maybe the water will break or move the log, making it much less of a problem for the water.