Gifting Flowers

 Gifting Flowers, 14th January 2026

Throughout my youth up until this year, 24 years in total, my views towards gifting flowers were as follows: A pointless act of disrespect towards nature, by specifically breeding a specific cultivar, that will be harvested in the millions a day, to be cut, to be sold through logsitcs up until, to be arranged in the bouquet, just for someone to put inside their house, or have no where to put them, uintil they wither and rot. A meaningless act, the flowers die anyway. Not because precisely so, but I had believed there were many more ways to convey love than to waste the lives of flowers. I wonder is this Fi forward thought? 

( continuation, 15th April 2026

I would conclude such valuation and perception is mainly Fi focused. A negelct and opposition to the norm, a desire for truth and individual value in priority. 

But as well, current me would go both ways.)

Anyways, fast forward a few months ago. The transition of perspective took me by surprise. I figured that all these flowers will never stop being produced, and start to understand the meaning of gifting flowers when I observed how each individual uses their value to purchase a something. And the receipent will then add on their individual valuation to the gift. As such, a constant and completely same bouquet, given to 20 people, will have 20 different levels of appreciations and thoughts and valuations. One might treasure it forever, while another might leave it in a corner. And the funny thing is the valuation, while subjective to the receipents individual valuation, how much they like the gifter will also largely affect how much they are touched or feel from the act of gift. So, perceived end value of bouquets = how much the receipent likes the other person + their perception towards money ( higher price equals higher love given ) + their individual appreciation towards flowers.