I walked around my yard today and admired all of the beautiful plants that are starting to bloom.  I noticed there were a bunch of daisies that had bloomed and started to wilt and die.  My ex taught me how to “deadhead” flowers.  I was always curious why you always had to deadhead, and he explained it like this: “The plant continues to give energy and life to those flowers that have run their course.  That energy is spent on dying blooms and it takes away from the energy new blooms need to flower.  So you cut off the parts that have bloomed to give way to more blooms.”

I started thinking about this and how much we all can learn from plants.  I started looking at my life and thinking about “deadheading the parts that have bloomed.”  If we stopped putting so much energy into the parts of our lives that have bloomed and have started to fade, we will be able to give our energy to the next bloom in our lives.  It’s a simple way to approach life, but sometimes it can be difficult to let go of the “blooms”.  When life is good, I have a tendency to hold on to it, squeeze the life out of it to try and keep it in my life.  What if I couldn’t do that?  What if I just stayed in the moment and let beauty come into my life, and let it leave when it’s supposed to?  I bet you I would be a little happier and more present.  Something to think about.

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