Flower power

Choose what makes you blossom & bloom 🌸🌼🌺

🎶🎶🎶 Songs: “La valse d’Amélie” and/or “Comptine d’un autre été, l’après-midi”, Yann Tiersen (from the great movie: “Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain”)

And / Or

Do you also remember solving the most difficult dilemmas with the petals of a daisy?

Letting coincidence decide. Rather than having the rational brain figuring out the pros & cons; or giving the heart a chance to lead the way.

Retrieving this nostalgic memory led me to think of it in another way. This one daisy brought me an insight rather than an answer. To one of my pitfalls: my resistance to showing courage for choosing what I really want & being who I truly am.

I realized that real dilemmas (as in:  challenging issues with equally attractive or unattractive options) are rather exceptional.  If they dó appear, daisy petals might not even be the worst decision making utilities.

But frankly, I catch myself creating a dilemma or an impasse more often than it actually occurs. I admit my talent to transform what is actually an ordinary (albeit hard to take) decision or a simple choice (although maybe leading to complex consequences or changes) into something that sounds & feels more complicated than it is in reality. It is closely tied to my talent of avoiding the fear to stand for what I really want, or speak my silenced voice. And in turn both talents fit perfectly my “to please”-character and “I am not good enough”-conviction. 

I dare to say that I don’t think I’m the only one recalling situations where I tried to make that last petal come out to where my preference secretly lay? That makes daisies in those situations symbolic for perfect excuses to endorse the choice we didn’t dare to take ourselves.

I don’t like excuses. So I transform them into the symbol for courage. To choose the changes I want, to speak the voice that I used to deny, to radically be honest towards myself, to release the ropes of my self-tied net, to break free of my self imposed limitations. A symbol for the impulse to follow course to my secretly chosen but not always pursued destination. 

My new symbol to choose what makes me bloom & blossom.

I might keep using its petals for true dilemma’s. To save time & brain energy. When there is no reason to invite many rational arguments in. To keep it simple (of ‘K.I.S.’, like I love to say (& do) ☺️ But in all other situations I remember that the last petal, as in my inner being, will just speak the language of my ♥️ with the understanding of my brain anyway. I don’t have to pick the daisy nor its petals to blossom & bloom.