NATURE | CREATIVITY | INSPIRATION
Shall I Compare You to the Cherry Blossoms?
My Medium friends for life
When I started my journey on Medium two years ago, there was nervousness, trepidation, and excitement. More than anything else, I wanted to connect with like-minded people who would support my creativity, be my friends, and understand my limitations. I wanted my favorite authors to like my poems and follow me so that they could see how much their works have transformed me.
Wonderful friends who read my poems, posts, and stories are my flowering trees who enhance my personality, nourish my passions, and value my contributions. Friendships are like flowers with a unique connection that keeps growing, spreading, and flourishing, whether in full bloom, budding, or withering.
Writing about the beauty of flowers is like stating an obvious fact. Just like friendships, they are apt for every occasion, vital for every décor, and unique for every personality.
A wide variety of flowers are available worldwide in thousands of shapes and color combinations, and just like friendships, they can be incorporated into our lives.
Wandering around nature, we encounter wildflowers growing naturally in their native environments, or we labor to grow flowers in our gardens by sowing their seeds. Flowering trees are exquisite examples of nature so different in many ways, like our friendships.
One of the glowing examples of flowering trees that illustrates my example of friendships is the Japanese Cherry Blossoms (Prunus cerasus). They are small, delicate pink flowers only seen in the spring for 10 days or less, and as opposed to cherry fruit trees, they’re ornamental. Sakura is the Japanese name for these trees, and their popularity has increased around the world through the generosity of the Japanese government.
A warm-hearted gesture of Tokyo’s officials brought 2,000 Cherry Blossom trees to Toronto in 1959, a reciprocation of Toronto’s kind-heartedness in relocating Japanese-Canadians after the Second World War. Since then, a lot of sites around Toronto have gotten in celebratory mode to renew friendship vows each spring. The largest concentration of Cherry Blossom trees is in the High Park area, where more than 150 trees have been planted since 1959 overlooking the Grenadier Pond.
Every year thousands of excited Torontonians flock to see the blooming beauty, and an endearing gesture of blooming friendship is a sight to behold. These trees provide an excellent food source for small mammals and the park’s resident songbirds. Additionally, they help Toronto to reduce carbon print by storing carbon and creating more oxygen, just like your reads and claps keep me motivated to write.
Winning friends for life is not an easy task, especially in the digital age where interest changes every second, and I feel so blessed to have you all who take time from their busy schedules for me.
I sincerely hope you remain my flowering trees for decades, never lose interest or abandon me for new writers. I express my gratitude by comparing your friendship to the most beautiful trees I’ve ever seen in my life. You all represent the best times in my life, spectacular and soulful like the Sakura.
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Thank you so much Dr. Preeti Singh for inspiring us every week. If you would accept my post as a thank you for your friendship, it would make me very happy.
Sincere thank you to the editors of Reciprocal Sahil Patel, Dr. Preeti Singh and Yana Bostongirl for consistent support.
This week I want to give a shout-out to two excellent nature-related posts that I enjoyed thoroughly.
Mulan’s poignant message about human behavior:
Saba Haider’s love for the Night sky and astronomy:
Forever grateful to everyone for your precious time and generous support. Stay blessed, motivated, and live your life to the fullest. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
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