If simplicity was a flower garden!

If simplicity was a flower garden would we enjoy walking on its alleys? As poetic  and irrational the question might sound, it has a deep meaning that can be reached quite easily if we are willing to spend a few minutes contemplating on it.  Simply put, the question is composed of a number of symbols and the correlations that exist between them, together they form a symbolic description of a social scenario.

This scenario involves the flowers which are symbols of our individual goals and interior desire, they are arranged in a systematic way, they are not let to grow in a random way, some of the flower species might be native to the land some might be from elsewhere.  What does the garden’s layout symbolize? Flowers are flowers, gardens are gardens…the list of examples can continue in the mind of those which are shallow in their analysis.

 A systematic layout and flowers that are from “elsewhere”? This are indicators of a consciously constructed vision of reality, an world that is the subject of planning and manipulation from the exterior.  To make it even more simple, the garden’s soil is our interior world, fertile or sterile, luminous or dark, in which the flowers, our ideas, values and morals fit their roots in. If we deal with a soil of a inferior quality, our ideas and values can die easily, not having enough nutrients to survive and develop.

As our ideas, values and morals can come from different sources so do the flowers from our garden, some were present there since the beginning, some were brought from the exterior, some were even ripped from their roots by others and put in to the garbage.  Some values were the product of our own conscious thinking, some just grew spontaneously as the result of social interaction and imitation, especially when we talk about our childhood. Step by step, our consciousness and emotional independence grows, we are not children anymore, we become serious minded adults, our spiritual garden becomes the subject of change, of systematization. The flowers there are no longer randomly scattered, we put the most exuberant flowers in front of the garden, where everybody can see them.

The colorful and exuberant as our achievements, our pride and realizations in life, in the back we have the little and colorless, with no particular value, not being seen as aesthetically desirable, our weaknesses, what we failed to achieve in life, betrayal and disappointment. To conclude, a garden is the projection of our interior universe in the form of a vegetative environment. An environment that transforms its shapes, elements and natural rhythm through the means of our perfectionist and insecure heart, an world that should rather be in accordance with esthetic norms of society, in opposition with a asymmetrical and unpredictable natural evolution. Our insecure minds are in favor of artificially traced development patterns as opposite to asymmetric natural development. So, if it takes all of that mental effort, can we still associate the concept of simplicity with that of a garden? That is a question that shouldn’t have be answered loudly!