“Because even a rose is seen as captivating, regardless of it’s thorns”
Roses: a symbol of love and death
They say that a dead man receives more flowers than an alive one, because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Roses, the first epitome of romance. Throughout history, roses are seen as as a beautiful intricate to show your partner your feelings. Even the petals removed and just thrown around calls for a delicate intimacy.
Yet these same flowers and petals when dried out or rotten symbolise a heartbreak or the death of a dear one. And no one ever questioned this, why fresh roses for love and peace yet dead ones for heartbreak and war?
A red rose, since the middle ages were symbolised as a sign of beauty, passion and innocence. Throughout the Victorian era, the deep red petals described a deep passion that seemed to last forever. These theories were so famous that even the Victorian language of flowers mentions the rose as an epitome of romantic passion.
But why dead roses for heartbreak?
Well, the answer is simple. The human eyes see and admire things that are relatable to themselves, so a fresh rose with droplets of dew makes us feel alive like we are when we love a soul yet when this love somehow dies, our brain associates us with all dead and sad objects, like a dead rose.
Now this is the reason why a rose is treated beautiful regardless of it’s painful thorns because all anyone ever looks at are it’s petals; yet the thorns also teach us a rather ignored lesson, a relationship also needs to go through some amount thorns and pain to be able to reach the petals, even if they’re dead.