Flowers

I used to think that flowers where useless, in the sense that if someone were to give me flowers it would be of no use. Especially at times like valentines and birthdays I have always said chocolate and jewelry are much better. However I have started to finally see the beauty of cut flowers. I mean the ones in a garden are obviously there to provide a nice esthetics feature to any house or environment.

Flowers are a lot more like people than I first imagined. They all have various physical features, textures and smells. They start off as a bud, usually one color then bloom out to be a more vivid shade of that color (or color combination) and then at the end they become darker, wrinkled and dried up even when they die they go naturally bit by bit until the last pedals are gone....Similar to how our body dies off slowly organ by organ until final peace. Maybe that's why flowers are so common at funerals, celebrations, birthday and other events...Its to show us that no matter what part of the cycle we are in we will ultimately end up like the flower. It's also to show us that we, like dried dead flowers, still offer memories and teaching and some esthetics to other even when our life is done.