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What makes someone pick a flower knowing it’ll wilt and die?
Why do we lay claim to beauty knowing we’ll only destroy it?
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What makes someone pick a flower knowing it’ll wilt and die?
Why do we lay claim to beauty knowing we’ll only destroy it?
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Maybe so we can say that, for some of it’s life span, that beauty was ours.
So once might say, “for a moment, it was *mine*.”
Even if it means less time for the flower’s beauty to remain.
My two cents 🙂 .
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Perhaps. We are creatures that want to be around beauty.
I have no idea why except to have it close by. I have purple iris’ and when the bed is in bloom, I have to go to the back of my house to see them. If there are many, I’ll cut some to be inside…selfish as I am. : )
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Oh, I like to do it too. I like being surrounded by beauty. Very selfish of me as well
In order to keep a rose bush healthy it must be pruned in order to keep the energy of the plant directed at producing healthy buds. True beauty requires constant rebirth in order to thrive.
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Ah hadn’t thought about that. A fair answer.
There is so much ugly in our life time, we just want to hold a moment of beauty, knowingly that it will wilt soon.. But, that moment…
Selfishness indeed.
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It seems we can’t help ourselves.