When I was walking last night, I noticed a lot of flowers blooming at the nursery in the market. I couldn’t help but to peek because they were inviting.
Since I was walking with my mom, she told me to be careful because this nursery often charges an unreasonable price. At first, I believed my mom as she kept comparing the price to another town where it’s much cheaper.
The thing is, the cost to get to another town isn’t something that she’d consider. Whereas this nursery that we don’t even have to spend on transportation, it’s not that bad. Most of the popular flowers cost around $1.5 - $2 which surprised me.
It’s still reasonable isn’t it? But according to my mom, that is way too expensive.
Silly me sometimes, that I believe everything she says. She liked to say things are expensive and it’s better not to get things or even fix things. She often made me reluctant to do anything because she already said that it would be too expensive.
Over and over again, I realized, they aren’t that expensive and there are better deals when in reality, the better deals aren’t the better deals. They would always come with extra cost and expenses.
Ever since coming back here, I am definitely taking everything that she said with a grain of salt. Just like this flower, this daisy that I was overjoyed to get but my mom made the whole experience sour because she argued with the seller that it’s too expensive. Even the seller was uncomfortable by her presence.
In the end though, I was happy to enliven the space I occupy for the cost of a coffee. I just think that this would make me feel a lot more comfortable being home and actually spend less in the long term by not going out.
Now that I spend less time with her, I’ve realized that since I am moving back, so many of my independence and boundaries get blurred. This daisy reminds me of that new beginning. I specifically chose the yellow one because when I saw it, that made me feel more cheerful and positive.
Once I was home, I played around with my camera and used a flashlight to create this effect. I didn’t know that by doing that, it could create these twinkling effects without any heavy editing.
I am currently expanding my collection again as I am seeing that the prices of flowers and plants are quite reasonable. I want to add more flowers to my balcony with some more shrubbery and greenery that are much easier to take care of. That being said, I need objects for my photography too 😂more flowers, could invite butterflies that’ll happily play around on my balcony.
And silly me for not doing this sooner just because I believed what my mother said about the cost of these flowers.
