In kindergarten, when I first learnt about characteristics of sunflowers, I was amused. My teacher had told me that sunflowers always faced the sun and I started regarding them with highest honour. Later that day when I bragged about the knowledge I had gained in school, my mother corrected me saying the sun flowers don't face the sun always, they replicate its path. It's why they wilt at night. I wondered how can nature be so smart and how dedicated the sunflowers were to the sun and with the little knowledge and innocence at the age of five, I searched a place in my mind higher than the place I had already placed the sunflowers at.
In high school, when we were learning of Whittaker's five kingdoms, I realised how much similar we we're to nature. And when I had a private discussion of this thought of mine with my biology teacher, she told me that we were far much more similar to nature and always have been. She told me that it's more like the nature and we are the same. We have same characteristics and we can easily relate to it if only we observed nature a bit more. I asked her for an example and she told me to think about the sunflower. I didn't understand what she was implying but she never explained it to me and whenever I asked, she would always answer with the same phrase "you'll know it when the time is right.". And every time she said that, I grew more anxious to know what it meant. I read books and watched videos. I googled and read several blogs but never found the answer.
Yesterday, after I got fired from my job, I found a dried sunflower; as I was packing to leave; that my mother had gifted me on my thirteenth birthday and I had preserved it as her memory. It reminded me of my story with sunflowers and how much I have always respected them but today this wilted sunflower was emitting vibes I didn't want to absorb. And then I realized what my mother and my biology teacher were trying to tell me. This evening, it wasn't only the sunflowers wilting as the sun set, I too was falling down with company I had dedicated ten years of my life to.
