What I Learned from Flowers

A flower doesn’t concern itself with the one beside it

It grows independently in time,

it doesn’t look to its side

or

try to hide behind 

the weeds for fear of inferiority

A flower blooms the way it was intended to

regardless of what it is surrounded by

because a bluebonnet isn’t a daisy

a blossom isn’t a tulip, 

a lily isn’t an iris and a

lotus isn’t a honeysuckle, 

nor does the sun nourish it as such. 

You wouldn’t look at a rose and wish it were a lily.

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