What If...we could be more like a flower?
Do you think a flower ever wishes that it could be more like another flower?
I know, in some ways, the answer is preposterously obvious — no!
And, yet, it seems a little conspicuous (to us humans) that something of beauty would NOT be able to think about its beauty in a frame of how its beauty compares to the beauty of something else. I wish I had more red in my flower. I wish I was bigger. I wish I was used more often in floral arrangements. I wish more people were around, to see me, etc.
You know, things that we, as human beings, think about all the time.
We could actually marvel at the possibility that we could be perfectly content in our own color and shape and size and season and use and all the other things that come with existing for the purpose of just being — not for the purpose of gain, popularity, or any other advantage that would somehow put us in a better position to get something we think we need.
What does a flower need? It beautifies the world either way, with or without audience, just by existing.
How do I beautify the world simply because I exist? Why do I evaluate my existence by using audience to validate it?
The irony is that beauty often does create audience — it is, after all, something to behold.
But, truly beautiful things don't need an audience to be beautiful. Because they are anyway.
...which may be part of what draws us to it (you know, like a flower).
