Grateful for my scars via /r/gratitude

I used to absolutely hate my scars. But I was thinking about trees the other day and it dawned on me that a trees bark is a lot like our skin. If you cut the tree it gets a scar like we do. And I’ve seen shows where the big lumps of scar tissue on trees is called burls and those parts of the trees are desired by people that turn them into cool looking tables and stuff. So it makes the tree with the biggest scar, or burl, more valuable. If I were a tree I’d have some really cool burls so that makes me more valuable! Now I look at my scars a lot differently and I’m grateful for that.