Des Fleurs
Content of this post may look like it contradicts with a previous post, however, in my head, it doesn’t!
I don’t hate flowers; I’m just not so fascinated by them!
I don’t like clichéd pictures of flowers and bouquets; I like natural ones that are not so overly consumed.
I don’t think flowers are that freakin romantic, if you love me and you want to get me something, go for chocolate! Same thing applies if I fall sick, no flowers, just chocolate, lots of it. Besides, if I’m sick I won’t be needing another thing to breathe MY oxygen at night.
I don’t hate flowers, I don’t, I actually love how they look in nature, all colorful and natural and beautiful and divine. I’m just not fond of bouquets, no matter how beautiful they could be!
My theory concerning that goes something like this: flowers are beautiful where they are, why kill them, get them out of context, place them in an unfamiliar surrounding with other flowers (whom they could not be friends with, you never know), and then give them to someone as a gift? You want to bring them flowers? Give them a rose garden or a plant with roots and everything, not a wilting bouquet!
Besides, what message does that give huh? (Still working on my theory) Flowers wilt. You bring your loved one flowers, a lovely bouquet of flowers to express your deep affection or budding relationship or simply as a romantic gesture, but did you ever stop to think about what it could mean on a symbolic level? These flowers are actually dieing, in a matter of hours they droop and wilt, and in 2 days they’re all dried up! Is that how you see your current relationship? Is that where you see it going?
(dark grim Eva)
I realize of course that no one sees it that way, and maybe no one should! Probably I’m just thinking too much into it twisting logic to go with my ways. It’s just that I’m not big on flowers!
Anyhoo, if someone brings me flowers I won’t be all angry and ungrateful; I’d certainly appreciate the gesture, but it would say something about how good this person knows me.
Seriously, if taken in an abstract view, why would I be thrilled that a bunch of flowers are taken away from where they belong to die just to make me smile?
Humff… yeah flowers are cool, sometimes even inspiring, but to cut it short and save myself and others all the boring explanation and rambling, when any random person asks me if I like flowers, I just say “nope, hate’em!”
May 5, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I think I read that right after u posted it. I wrote half a comment and left, checked it a couple of hours later, tried to convince myself maybe I don’t hate them, maybe they’re not symbolic enough for me or anything, but NO I never thought that deeply about them. I simply HATE Flowers! Maybe cause they’re a source of insects or something! I even hate most the songs about them, kissed by a rose w send me a rose and all that, okay so maybe I didn’t mind Ace of Base’s life is a flower and Asmahan’s Ya Zahratan fi 7′ayali!
May 5, 2008 at 9:05 pm
lol
) I like nature in all its original forms before man messes it up for his petty advantage. But yeah… I understand what you mean perfectly, and I’m not very fond of flowers for reasons like that and for how overly consumed they are in notions like love and romance and similar shit… I don’t like cliches! Bas all that aside, I still think that they are beautiful, as all of God’s creations, they’re just not my favorite element in nature!
you know one of the reasons I always had conflicting feelings about plants and green areas in general is insects bardo, then I got over it (not insects, but my conflicting feelings
May 6, 2008 at 7:46 am
Good theory
)
Well..
I don’t hate flowers, but I prefer “a plant with roots” (as u said).
The thing is that I hate how they become messy when they wilt, u know,… pollen grains, leaflets, and stuff!
And sure, I’ll go for chocolate
May 6, 2008 at 8:42 am
yeaaah… I know what you mean. I have no idea what to do with the pile of jasmines in my car, they’re all dried up and dusty and messy and I’m still kinda hung up on the whole idea of buying jasmines so I don’t want to throw them away just yet!
hmmm… I can start looking for traces of whatever in something else, gotta break my habit of buying jasmines, I’ll just take my time though!
May 6, 2008 at 9:30 am
You know what, next time I’m not flat broke I’m buying me a cactus!
May 6, 2008 at 9:33 am
LOL dee
You have my blessings!
actually cactuses (cacti?) are reeeeeeally cute!!!! bgad!
Yeah go for it
May 7, 2008 at 1:03 am
That post reminds me of someone
I read it, i agree with what u wrote, but still I like flowers, i wait for someone to get me flowers
Not a grand bouquet , just white and yellow ward baladi
But again, I would be just as happy if someone got me a flowering plant
May 7, 2008 at 2:36 pm
who?? *curious inquisitive look*
hmm.. okay I’d consider making an exception for you and buy you a simple bouquet of white and yellow ward balady! But that doesn’t change where I stand on the matter!
May 7, 2008 at 4:44 pm
But I am not waiting for flowers from YOU, you idiot!
Although u r probably my best bet
What the hell get me flowers, and i will overcome the lesbian reputation that comes along with it
May 7, 2008 at 4:50 pm
LOL,
duuuh I know you didn’t mean ME!! But see I knew that chances are you’d get them from meeee and not anyone else… hmm naaah you know your “mysterious creature” is all sweet and great!
loool, as for the lesbian reputation, you know who would be very happy with it – that cute little sick perv –
May 8, 2008 at 8:57 am
I love flowers; namely tulips… and then i have a long list of preferences and colors!
i love their colors and their posture, either in real life or in bouquets… i get what you said, and i am buying it… but every now and then i want a flower, to dry and keep so that i can look at it later and remember what it once meant for me; a bouquet would be needless and too much tho!
and btw, i once got a tulip with its root, and guess what, flowers wilt anyway because when they change soil in the fragile form they cannot tlerate new soil… and i am really bad at taking care of things…
and btw, relationships wilt too
perhaps people should bear that in mind!
May 8, 2008 at 9:13 am
lol, Did you really have to say that last part? Some people still have faith in things! (count me in too! I believe things sometimes work out, sometimes don’t)
And yeah I know you love flowers