I've always been the type to love receiving flowers. I love flowers, I love their scent, their presence, their softness, their beauty. I think people are like flowers. As children we're little rose buds learning about the world, getting all our needed nourishment from the soil and the sun and then, when we're ready we bloom. We learn to be ourselves. We learn which things we like, which things we don't, which things bring excitement, we learn to love, we learn how to deal with pain, we adjust ourselves and our temperaments to our surroundings and the way we're being treated.

Much like a wilted plant who hasn't been watered, people wilt too. When our hearts break, when we lose people, when the things or people we want and need are no longer accessible to us. It is in this moment that we need to adjust, we kind of self preserve and harden in an attempt to keep out the thing that's hurting us.

I don't know exactly at what moment in every persons life they realize their own strengths and their own abilities to adapt and for self preservation. But once we find it, it becomes a big part of us. Plants and flowers are simple living things, they need water, sunlight and soil in order to survive and bloom.

I believe peoples equivalent to that is love, pain and joy. People on the other hand are obviously more complex so of course we need more. The issue is that the more we get, the more we want and the more we get what we want, the more it becomes a need. Before you know it what you now need to survive and flourish has doubled and you need things you didn't need before.

On a very personal note I hope to one day go back to a more minimalistic way of life. Where I can do more than just survive. Where I can truly enjoy my life for what it is and accept that there are many things out of my control.

I'm working on it.....stay tuned.

Love always,

Dory ✨