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Author/Writer/Spoken word artist/Songwriter/Singer/Student. @ UNIZIK
Awka, Nigeria
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Bluebells.
<p>Bluebells are nice. They are very pretty and underrated. They signify humility, gratitude, and constancy. They are, in fact, my favourite flower.</p><p><br/></p><p>If I were asked, “What is your favourite flower?” I would sometimes tell them to take a guess.</p><p><br/></p><p>“Roses. You seem like the type of girl who loves roses.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Sunflowers.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Dandelions.”</p><p><br/></p><p>“Tulips.”</p><p><br/></p><p>But they’re not.</p><p><br/></p><p>I LOVE BLUEBELLS.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not because they are pretty to me or because they signify something society wants to see in everyone: humility, gratitude, and constancy.</p><p><br/></p><p>Bluebells are underrated, and although they carry these meanings, I see them from my own point of view. That is why I love them.</p><p><br/></p><p>I see bluebells as women in society who are told to be obedient to the other gender while still looking pretty.</p><p><br/></p><p>I see bluebells as people who have been weighed down by the pressures of society and home, yet are expected to appear alright.</p><p><br/></p><p>Humility?</p><p><br/></p><p>Gratitude?</p><p><br/></p><p>Constancy?</p><p><br/></p><p>Words society uses to force its own ideologies upon us while still expecting us to be okay.</p><p><br/></p><p>“It’s okay not to be okay.”</p><p><br/></p><p>But sometimes, why can’t we just be okay without first having to be not okay?</p><p><br/></p><p>We survive while trying to look pretty.</p><p><br/></p><p>We survive even when the burdens seem too heavy to carry.</p><p><br/></p><p>We survive while being weighed down by societal norms, culture, values, and beliefs.</p><p><br/></p><p>They expect us to appear okay.</p><p><br/></p><p>Alright.</p><p><br/></p><p>Pretty.</p><p><br/></p><p>And even when we try to appear at our best, we do not do it to be noticed like roses and daisies.</p><p><br/></p><p>Perhaps I love bluebells because they do not demand to be noticed.</p><p><br/></p><p>They simply bloom</p><p>even when they are under pressure.</p>
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