Green Thursday

I think I might be inheriting my mom’s green thumb.  Seriously, it’s weird because lately I’ve been a little preoccupied with flowers and suddenly I’ve become interested in getting a houseplant for my apartment.  I feel like I’ve slipped into the Twilight Zone (queue music).  In my teens and all throughout my twenties, I would space out whenever my mom took me into her garden and went on and on about how great her azaleas were doing.  To this day, she get’s an immediate high whenever she goes to a garden nursery and is surrounded with plants and flowers.  Totally makes her day.  I was convinced that in my case, an interest in greenery had somehow skipped a generation.  Until now.

At the moment, I currently have three bouquets of flowers in my living room.  They were a combination of birthday and Valentines Day presents.  However, why is it that everyday I cannot pass by them without stopping to stare, sniff, and smile at them?  Yes, you heard right, I actually smile at the flowers when I look at them. Not only that, I’ve actually taken “extra” steps to keep them preserved longer.  I change their water every few days and fluff them up too.  This is more than I’ve ever done in the past whenever I’ve received flowers.   So what’s happening to me?   Could be a combination of things.  Either it’s the fact that I turned 30 a few weeks ago and thus I am turning into my mother.  Or it could be that for the past few weeks I have been practicing being more aware of my surroundings and now I look at things a little differently.  Now when I look at the flowers, I am noticing things about them that I haven’t before.  Things like how each day their petals grow wider and wider when the sunlight comes through my windows and how the colors seem to become more vibrant.   And the unique scent they give off kinda refreshes me in a way that only  flowers can do.

So, now I think I understand why my mother has always been so captivated by flowers and plants.  Handling them and being around them was always therapeutic for her and made her really happy.  For me, it’s just a reminder to always be present in the moment and take notice of the beauty happening all around you.   This is what being in the moment has taught me and now it’s manifested into an appreciation towards potted plants.  Who knows what else this new outlook on life will bring.  Stay tuned…

See Beauty…

Ariane