{"id":1227,"date":"2018-06-03T22:34:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2018-06-03T22:36:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:36:46","slug":"its-so-beautiful-it-almost-looks-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2bgreener.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"It’s So Beautiful, It Almost Looks Fake."},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom was not a good cook, having been brought up in the time of \u201cMock Apple Pie\u201d made with Ritz crackers and without apples (?), and Salmon Loaf (yeeesh), white bread, white rice, white crackers, Taster’s Choice instant coffee, and canned vegetables extraordinaire. She is also NOT where I got my green thumb. Once we gave her a few pots of silk flowers to provide some color and \u201clife\u201d to the dining room plant shelves where all her living plants went to die, and she forgot they were silk, watered them, and their color ran down into our carpet. Not a joke. She killed the fake plants.<\/p>\n

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Fake Orchid<\/p><\/div>\n

When she saw my plants in my apartment in college, she said \u201cthey are so beautiful, they almost look fake.\u201d How is it that we have gotten so comfortable with fake we judge perfection against it? Maybe this is the root of much of our discontent in life. We have warped the idea of perfection to mean something without flaw, instead of something that has achieved a complex beauty and function within its capabilities, and in conjunction with everything it affects and is affected by.<\/p>\n

Perfection should mean, perhaps, achieving a complex beauty and function within current capabilities, and in conjunction with everything it affects and\u00a0is affected by.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n