Making the Case for Full-Chalance: Telling People You Love Them and Gifting Flowers

For all my precautions in the name of certainty, I’ve realized what it has meant to deprive myself of emoting loudly, loving loudly, and the risk of looking silly being its own reward.

There is irony in these parallels laden before me because I’m in the business of letting it be known how you feel about other people in every context. How curious (and beautiful) is it that in its universal symbolism that the gifting of flowers have persisted throughout time? In a culture that is very much nonchalant and holds little room for analog, it remains a gesture almost akin to handwritten letters because it need not be grandiose for the message to be received in full. Yet, its an inherently high-production thing to do. Whether its picking up a potted orchid from the grocery store or ordering a hand-tied bouquet, much is conveyed in all the steps that make it happen. As the thought sequence goes- “So you were thinking about me.”