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Essay / And it all started with a flower - 501
Have you ever seen a flower grow? From a seed grows a small green stem, and soon the roots and leaves signal the plant's determination to survive. One day a bloom appears and unfolds like a story waiting to be told. As the bloom gets bigger, more water and care is needed to keep the plant alive. This tires its caretaker and soon help is needed to care for the flower. We then consider that it might be easier to simply throw the flower away, but that it is more difficult than expected to part with it. Have you ever seen a building on fire? The fire was not caught quickly enough and the flames had already been at work for too long. They envelop the interior, but leave the frame still standing, barren as the wind itself. Without its fleshy foundations, the building is vulnerable and everyone is screaming ...