THE BROKEN FLOWERS

THE BROKEN FLOWERS

Posted by JOHN GRIMSTAD on 31 August 2009 | 0 Comments

The BROKEN FLOWERS
(Translated from Norwegian by John)
By John Grimstad

What really makes us different from a plant?
A plant can be stepped on. So can we.
Some plants grow up to become beautiful flowers
While some plants wither away and dies or never gets the chance to grow up.
But, some plants gets broken or shattered by an outer force.
Who knows. Perhaps that flower would one day have grown up to become a beautiful rose, or a tulip.
What does a plant that has been broken do?
Does it lay down and die, or does it continue to grow from the stem?
Does it use all its life force on just ONE thing. To heal itself and grow.

So what really makes a rose any more beautiful than a broken stem?.
And why are the broken stems always thrown away (or used)?

Why does our love always go away when we see broken stems?. And why do we never see how beautiful they really are?
Why do we never see the hope and its life force, even if it will never be a rose?
What if it was you that had been broken?
What if you lose whatever or whomever meant the most for you in your entire life?
Would you lay down and wither away?
Would you continue as usual and pretend that you were still a rose?
Or would you use all your life force to heal yourself and grow, even if you would never be anything more than a stem?