Hey, guys, I have been extremely busy with studies and exams and sorts. But now I am free. So I will try to publish as many blogs as possible.

In my quest to explore love it is futile not to consider the symbolism of love, which we celebrate on Valentine’s day by gifting a rose to a special someone or to ourselves. In many cases, roses have also been depicted as flowers of pain that can be caused by various emotions, but in this case, we will focus on its association with love. It is important to note, however, that roses have taken on many forms of cultural importance around the world.

In order to further explore love let us use the example of a rose as a manifestation/symbol of love. For this blog I want you to visualize a rose and each part of this rose has various meanings of love. Let us start with the stem which connects to the petals. I would like to think that the stem symbolizes connectedness of oneself to everyone else in the world and around us that means that we are all capable of loving one another. The second part of the rose is its thorns in which case we depict love to be painful. Similarly, I want you to think that these thorns of the rose are a test to see if you and your lover are able to grow and understand each other regardless of your differences. The third part of the rose are the petals that are symbolic in a way that each petal that we pluck is a fleeting experience or a moment of time that one spends with their lover. Petals also symbolize the fragility of love, meaning that one is willed to enjoy and cherish their time with one another. Due to the fragility of love, they both are willed in attempting to make every time momentous and memorable for each other to lead a healthy life together. The last characteristic of the rose is, of course, the overall beauty of the flower. The beauty of the rose sums up the emotion of love because it is the living embodiment of the emotion love, thus, the rose can be seen as much more than a flower, but rather a teaching tool for heartaches and memories that love causes for the two people.  

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

——–Katharine Lee Bates

To conclude the post I want to just say that one should love everyone around them, love their life partner, and lastly, love themselves. Let the moments you spend with people around you, whether it may be strangers or loved ones, be filled with roses.