The life of a flower...

You can go through life plodding along, trying to fit in. You can go through rough times and not see a way out for a while. Or you can live life with the same routine everyday not worrying about what happens next. Then something will change, you will lose something from your everyday life and you’ll realise you’ve been focusing on the wrong thing. Life is precious and you will face what you think are hard times, but little obstacles are worthless to the bigger picture. Find the beautiful things in life and hold them close while you can, make memories to last a lifetime and beyond while you can and learn to love the true meaning of life.

A flower/plants life can last a few days, months or keep reappearing for years. No matter the length of their life they grow for a reason. Some are apart of over grown parts of the land and offer nothing but mess, they’re hard to get rid of and teach us that we need more beauty around us. They may keep coming back in to the world and we will continue to cut them out again, learning new ways to keep them away. But then there are the finer things in life. The flowers that are so beautiful, unique and take extra looking after to keep them in our lives. The ones we want to look after and have with us forever in our memory even when it’s their turn to leave. They keep us smiling and in some cases stay with us for a little longer than some giving us beauty to look at everyday. A bit of light when we don’t see the good that day.

They all thrive in different environments good and bad. It’s up to us to decide wether we want them and what we can do to benefit from them in life. Do we need to give them more attention and allow them to remind us of why we have them? Were they a gift for a short period of time? Do we deserve them? Or were they a gift at a poor time in life but were given to us to try brighten a situation? However we receive a natural gift I see them as lessons and memory makers. I find it fascinating how there are so many different plants in the world. All unique and how they adapt to their environments and are treated in life. Something so pure can grow to be beautiful enough to give that little bit of hope and comfort in life some day.

If you haven’t realised by now that I am creating a link between plants and human beings then maybe this isn’t the post for you. But I see so many similarities between the two. Both are types of life that are different and unique as we are and both impact someones world in so many different ways. I’m not a religious person personally but I do believe that living things do have a soul purpose in life. Plants and flowers are such a big part of my life. I see them as something I can love and control the life of as I take care of them and watch them grow. Some of them have to die at a certain time which makes me sad but they made me smile for a good amount of time and I will remember them.

When that soul can’t be seen by you physically one day it will break your heart. They’re there in your memories but it won’t always feel enough. But that’s all you have and you need to hold on to that. They brought so much happiness to you for the length of time they were there and we hold on to that forever. The love never dies and that’s what I find so beautiful about life. I hope I find my forever loved flower, until then I’ll continue to love the ones that are apart of my life whatever the length of time or situation that may be. The ones that aren’t so beautiful or are here to cause pain or an unpleasant site I’ll continue to remove and not let them grow back in to my life.

Life is a journey you can’t plan for, ever. There are heart breaks but there are hearts full of love and I hope we can find some happiness through the pain we face.

February brought many lessons. Some I weren’t ready for and some that were unpleasant but they were brought to me for a reason and I’ll continue to find the reason for them. We lost a beautiful soul physically but we have memories and the beautiful souls apart of their life right here to carry the life onwards. The memory and the love will never fade I promise. A tulip situation right now and will appear again next week on the anniversary of the loss of my beautiful Nan so many years ago that still feels like yesterday.

Sending love always x

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