Superstition

My current problem is that I have a negative symbol. You see the day she said “I love you”, I bought a set of bamboo plants. For over a year now, I’ve tended them as best I can, which generally means I didn’t attempt to kill them and haven’t killed them through stupidity, lack of watering or failure to place them near sunlight. They have waxed and waned in tune with the relationship: when we broke up for a time last year, the one of the three stalks started to wither. It collapsed nearly to the rocks in which they are all planted, then stopped. I wouldn’t read too much into it, but we got back together and just when I thought about replacing the withered plant, it recovered enough to create new leaves at the lowest healthy point.

Why is this all important? Well, the plant has been healthy for almost a year now and, while the relationship has been on and off, the plant has stayed healthy. However,both the relationship and the plant had a major setback in the last week. She dumped me and while we were arguing on the phone, my cat, Goblin, destroyed an entire set of leaves. He repeated his destruction to another set of leaves a few days later, also while I was on the phone with her. Despite that, the withered stalk seems healthy enough. However, another stalk is withering, yellowing from top to bottom.

So, I ask, what is the omen? Does this plant symbolize her love for me? When is the relationship truly done for? When all three wither? When all three die? When one of them dies? Should I try extreme measures to rescue the plant? Or, does the death of the plant symbolize the death of the futility of the relationship and the beginning of something new?

I suppose I’ll know if the plant actually fails, or if is somehow survives. Or, perhaps, this means absolutely nothing... Hindsight is 20-20...

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Copyright: 2009-11-29 21:41:56