If You Love a Flower...

If you love a flower, don't pick it up.

Because when you pick it up it dies

and it ceases to be what you love.

So if you love a flower, let it be.

Love is not about possession.

Love is about appreciation.

-Osho

Life is full of flowers.

Some flowers are objects,

some flowers are people,

and some are inanimate objects.

I have picked my fair share.

Thinking I was preserving what I cared about.

Thinking I could save that which I needed for another time,

a rain check of sorts.

But ultimately 

I have learned that flowers need their essentials,

all of which, are acculated independent of myself.

Flowers need soil,

to develop root systems and grow.

Flowers need sunlight,

to photosynthesize and become their future selves.

Flowers need water,

to weather the cyclic seasons and persevere.

But most of all, flowers need time.

Time to organically grow from a seed to a shoot.

Time to grow, from it's shoot, baby leaflets.

And after those stages,

a flower needs time to  become adult.

So it can display itself in its truest form.

We often think that when we pick our flowers up,

they are in their final, adult, stage.

We are often wrong.

We might be ready to pick it up,

not that doesn't mean the flower is ripe for the picking.

Most flowers could still benefit from the essentials.

From the soil.

From more sunlight.

From more water, and naturally,

from more time.

So when you bend at the waste, ready to make your bouquet,

think twice about whether the flower in you life has had enough essentials.

Time will tell if the flower should be picked at all.

Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.

WeTheRoses

9/4/14