Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
- This chapter begins by observing that dead things are dry and brittle, while living things are soft and flexible.
- The TTC takes a lesson from this and say that we should live with flexibility.
- If we are rigid and super set in our ways, then the world is going to break us.
- An army that's inflexible will lose.
- A rigid tree is easy to chop down.
- So even though something might seem big and powerful, it's not nearly as powerful as something that's small and nimble.