This is the title of the last episode of Hi, Bye Mama! a k-drama that I finished watching yesterday-and it’s about this woman, Cha Yuri who gets a second a chance to be with the people she loves, after being a ghost for 5 years.

As I was watching that final episode, I couldn’t help but go back on the title and it’s truly interesting how a flower may indeed lose its petals, they may fall off, wither or get clipped, but that doesn’t take away the fact that it is a flower. How many times have we fallen short and declared ourselves unworthy?

How many times do I as a Writer beat myself up for not writing anything? Or feeling that I failed at work when something did not go as planned? And just that phrase alone, petals fall but the flower remains- was enough to remind me to be gentle and kind to myself when things do not go as I planned.

This coming week, I want to carry this with me as I go about working on things I yearned for.

Have a great week ahead.