Why send flowers in the first place?

The long and short of it is… because she is worth it.

I am talking not about the cost of flowers. Yes, it does entail some cost and may feel like it is much more than its actually worth to you… but not to whom you are sending it to.

There is nothing like receiving flowers, (well maybe receiving an engagement ring) but before that happens, receiving flowers is one of the best things to brighten someone’s day. I have seen all-business-don’t-mess-with-me-executive-type mature ladies break into girlish giggles when they get an armful of flowers.

You should see their faces light up! (the perks of delivering flowers, you get a front-row seat to seeing what real unedited joy looks like). I’ve also seen the timid and all-hopeful slow and trying-so-hard-to-contain smiles of new love celebrated with a single rose. Or, my favourite, the sure and contented knowledge of a wife who gets her Mother’s Day, Birthday and Anniversary peach roses from her ever loyal and romantic husband of 13 years, without fail year-after-year, a simple act of reassurance that love can and DOES last through the good and the bad.

People who say, “bulaklak lang yan, malalanta lang yan” sadly have not experienced how it is to receive these acts of love, reassurance, friendship and faithfulness… or maybe never have they been in the presence of one who has, and most likely, wish that they did and have.

Yes flowers are beautiful, but it is the feeling that comes with it that makes it even more so. Flowers are extensions of our thoughts and feelings. With its beauty we task it to express what we may not be able to put into words. We send it with the hope that these thoughts are conveyed, appreciated and hopefully reciprocated. So long after its wilted and brown, the memory of it is still there, just ask the girl who has carefully preserved these precious blooms in a long forgotten book. (ladies…aren’t we all guilty of that at one point or another, for one love… or another)

So gentlemen, please, having laid it out in plain and descriptive terms, do not, under any circumstance, give ARTIFICIAL/PLASTIC flowers. Unless… you would like a cold shoulder or an ever platonic relationship with your sweetheart.

If you ask me, I would rather get a gumamela from your neighbor’s backyard, a santan from your own, or if you are lucky enough, a rosal… but please… ‘wag na lang plastic.