At the start of this year, I decided I would regularly buy myself flowers. I won’t say it was a resolution or that it even made it to my vision board. But, it has become a major part in me learning to become more intentional. I needed to learn to treat myself and do for myself, the things I had expected from others. I now understand how important even the small things are, if they bring any sense of joy. Not only does a beautiful bouquet make me smile, but it is teaching me not to be so impressed by the bare minimum. Because, girl, if we are honest, even that bare minimum in dating gets us caught up sometimes (but we will save that discussion for another time).
What I love about a nice bouquet is it being the specific combination and pairing of specific flowers. When a flower is chosen to be added to a bouquet, there is no need for it to yell out “pick me!” That flower is chosen because for that bouquet it is perfect. A flower’s main job is simply to bloom. To bloom through all outside circumstances. To bloom into the very best version of itself. A flower doesn’t need to prove its beauty or to compete; it just needs to bloom. A flower doesn’t stop blooming to accommodate. A lily can’t miraculously become a tulip, and why would it want to?
Look at you blooming sis! Blooming through it all. But it shouldn’t be a surprise right? Afterall, that’s what flowers do. And you sis, are a flower. Even on the days you find it difficult to bloom and during the times you can’t quite see and understand your beauty, you are a flower still. You are blooming on purpose and it looks good on you.
Flowers Need Rain 