I like flowers.
Watching, inhaling their scent and taking pictures of them. I think they make the most gorgeous close-ups you can ever find. Imagine a Rose or an Iris from a 5 – 10 cm distance, you can inspect every nook and cranny of the plant. They don’t hide anything from your eyes (well except for an occasional angry wasp) and therefore have a some kind of innocence I cherish. Even though some carnivorous species have the unfriendly tendency to devour their visitors, the majority of them are waiting for you to appreciate them freely. Amazing isn’t it?
However, for most of us guys this amazingness seems to be completely lost in an ocean of indifference. And that is why I was favorably impressed when I spotted one my coworkers coming to the office from some early shopping session with a bouquet of flowers. Please note that bringing a few petals to your significant other once a year is up to anyone, but I had already seen him carrying a Rose intended to his wife a week before. So there he comes and my romantic core kicks in; uttering something outrageously sweet that I cannot repeat herein. Anyway, I could not help but think that if we men were a little more attentive to our partners, we could avoid a lot of trouble. Not necessarily with flowers, but with all sorts of small details.
PS : To be truthful, I was curious and actually doubtful about the bouquet and followed suit after him to the nearest sink. He was watering the flowers and that is when I asked him who they were for : the floral arrangement was to be added to a shrine aside The Buddha and therefore not really for his spouse’s pleasure!?
PS 2 Not all flowers smell good, you do not want to have any sniff from that particular one.
