Driving home from Holiday World with my best friend beside me and my children almost to sleep in the back, I pointed to the beautiful sunflower field out the right window. The sea of yellow stretched through the otherwise barren and weed-laden field and my first thoughts were of the symbolism therein: something tall and beautiful in an unkempt field, which (in my mind) translated to hope and love in otherwise dashed dreams, which made me think of mistakes (weeds) both heart wrenching yet somehow beautiful, which led to…
“Hey, Leslie. You know why that sunflower field’s there? See, people plant those fields to attract doves and then that’s where they hunt. The flowers attract the doves and – bam!”
How sad. All that beauty to attract the innocent and to make the kill. Isn’t that how it is, though? We like to think things are beautiful just to be beautiful; that real and simple peace exists. But, then, we’re slapped in the face with the cruel reality that beauty (whether people, situations, events, objects, etc.) often only attract so as to kill. I wonder, how often are we the dove? And, how often are we the sea of yellow sunflowers?
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I don't think I was quite that abrupt. I think I eased you in to the devastation of the fatal attraction.
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