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Flowers or Weeds?

Prompt: "Weeds are flowers, too once you get to know them." A. A. Milne What are your thoughts about this?

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I love this quote because there are so many ways of looking at it.

First, some weeds do have flowers. They may be tiny or unnoticeable but they are flowers, nevertheless.

Then, some weeds are medicinal to the degree that their value is much more than the fancy-looking flowers.

In addition, in the metaphorical sense, the hardships we consider weeds in our lives are there to teach us, to make us become hardened to ills of the world, and to make us become aware of our personal shortcomings.

To wrap it up, “a weed is a flower in an undesirable place” is the idea, but a weed can be in an undesirable place through no wish or its own. An example could be a person like me who dislikes politics but is forced into the Congress, kicking and screaming. Just think about that! What we consider weeds, we need to look at from this point of view, too.