Why Do We Send Flowers?

10/26/2024

Alisha Gorder's Article is very interesting and instructive. Reading and reflecting on this article makes me think about how to live wisely. According to my understanding, life is fleeting. We tend to live in the delusion and fantasy that life is eternal. This delusion keeps me abiding in darkness and I forget that life is fleeting and one day my body and mind will go away. This article makes me think and live with a clear understanding of how I live my life. My life is very precious. It is very important. Today I am here and tomorrow I may not be here. This is the truth. Realizing this truth makes me live mindfully. Every breath of my life is precious and to breathe wisely. Today is the day. I may not be here tomorrow. Knowing this truth helps me know how to live daily and fully. Each day is a good day. Each day is a God's day. Each day, each breath is very precious. Seeing many people passing away in my long life has taught me how to live my life everyday. I have come to realize how to live everyday and every night. Today I am alive. Tomorrow I may not be here. Knowing this truth I have come to see the value of living everyday mindfully. Realizing the impermanence of life keeps me awake and mindful of living my life meaningfully. May we realize how to live fully and gratefully. This is my prayer. Amen.
Namaste.

2 Comments

pramila shah

10/26/2024 11:39:38 am

I am aware of that; people & plant does not last for ever. Whatever time we have
enjoy; leave like today is your last day.

Debbie Podwika

11/9/2024 03:15:42 pm

It is a good reminder to look at nature and how it changes during the seasons but how it also comes back. Now my particular religion believes that our spirits are eternal and to some extent that gives me great comfort.

I think there's a bit more to reflect on the first part of that post. Why do we give flowers when they're so fleeting?? First I think because they are beautiful. They certainly are something tangible that make most people smile, buying any particular allergies someone might have ha. They are fleeting whether we leave them growing in the ground or put them in a vase to enjoy. They certainly do represent life's cycle and that is a reminder if they fall to the ground they become part of enriching the soil to bring back the new generation the following year. When people give me flowers I not only see the beauty of the flowers but I feel the love of the person and the beauty of that person they gave them to me. It makes me feel very loved and go they are not always given at sad times on my heart hurts that love helps it heal.

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