Tuesday, August 08, 2006

orchids and roses

imagine your weeds in a garden... you're ugly and annoying. if you look to the other end of the garden there's 1 orchid in a vase and right next to it a rose.. You, the tiny little unnoticed weed absolutely love both plants. In your opinion orchids and roses are the most beautiful flowers on earth. Especially these particular ones. They dont treat you as weed, they treat you as if you're one of them. They respect you and even show you some love.

Then at one point you come into the situation where you have to choose. What will you choose. Will you go for Orchid, the most beautiful flower with that lovely scent and shyness hanging about her. Or will you go for Rose, with it's typical romantic ideas and of whom you know she'd always show you how much she cares about you?

Are you dreaming? How would it ever work out? Regardless of whom you'd choose.. there's always the distance, and them being so much better, prettier and everything you are not. How could it ever be an equal relationship? Well, in holland we have this expression saying "Hope keeps alive"... So I guess Weed should keep on hoping. And who says Weed can't dream?

8 comments:

Charlie said...

I guess as we say, 'hope springs eternal'.

x

Anonymous said...

Maybe weed should become a poet and author 'Orchids & Roses.'

You love imagining yourself as something don't you? I do that but sometiems it freaks me out.

The quotation from didescharlie is actually from a verse by my favourite poet Alexander Pope:

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest:

Ester said...

wow, Rehan! thank you *blushes*

Ester said...

and yes I do like using metafors and imagining myself als something :-)

Anonymous said...

what kind of weed is this? magical weed or ugly weed, or one of those weeds like twitch that grows and grows and grows and is impossible to get rid of?

Ester said...

oh Peter lol you know just as well as me, that was a metaphore lol

and if I have to choose: magical weed lol

Anonymous said...

can you not spell metaphor?

Anonymous said...

a weed is not a weed when growing where it belongs or is wanted.