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Learning to Embrace Dependence in Life With a Chronic Illness
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A few years ago, in pop culture, there emerged a simple method to categorize a person. One was either a “flower” or a “gardener.” Upon learning of this schema on social media, I quickly and ashamedly became silent — which was not at all like me — as I was most decidedly a “flower,” and by implication, self-centered.
I was embarrassed at the realization and hoped no one would directly ask me the question, “Which one are you? A flower or a gardener?” I feared the worst about myself.
Aren’t “flowers” self-absorbed? Do they not care so much about the betterment of others as their own intrinsic quest to capture the spotlight… née sunlight?
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