This is utterly special. Recap of my conversation with a young lecturer (He doesn't teach me, we're more like friends).
Me: when will you go to Cameron to collect specimen again?
Lecturer: why?
Me: I need your help to buy me some flowers for my juniors' convo celebration.
Lecturer: Sorry. I don’t buy flower from Cameron.
Me: huh? Why? Why Cameron?
Lecturer: Oo… or I should say I don’t buy flower. (He insisted)
Me: I’m not asking you to buy flower for me. I’ll pay you back.
Lecturer: I never buy flower for anyone. (He’s married, so I asked…)
Me: You don’t tell me you didn’t have a bouquet of flower when you were graduated. Ha…
Lecturer: lemme think… ya… I had one. My mother in-law bought it, 没 变。(can’t help)
Me: huh? Why? What’s the problem? What make you resist of buying flower? I mean, I know it is die for the sake of our happiness, but, at least, it’s a death for contribution.
Lecturer: do you know that flower is the reproductive organ of a plant? If you pluck it, the plant will not die, it is as if you’re stopping it from producing seed and fruit. Just the same as you castrate (spay) a human! (阉?)
Me: err… if you think it this way… (speechless--I never thought about it… haiyo…) It’s true.
The flowers of plants are reproductive structures whose function is the production of seed. Many flowers are very beautiful, are greatly enjoyed by man, and used by him for purposes of ornament. From the standpoint of the plant, however, the beauty of the flower is important only in so far as it aids in the production of seed.
{The Plant Kingdom by William H. Brown}
I know that I shouldn’t do thing against the nature.
Oh well…
Flower…Buy or not to buy?