Flower power

[Holly Leckner]

It's a corny title, I know. But last week I decided to buy four sunflowers because I simply thought they were beautiful reminders that there is happiness in the world. Anyway, I took these flowers to school and gave them out to four girls that I knew would appreciate them with the instructions that they could keep them for awhile, but they had to give them to someone else at some point in the day to spread the happiness around. I thought that this would be a cool social experiment to see how people would take being presented with the simple beauty of things randomly by a person they might not even know.

Mostly nobody understood it. They made fun of it, saying that they would give it to some "emo" kid that was going to kill themselves, or they said that it was weird or stupid etc. etc. My question is, why would they take it that way? What is so hard to understand about someone giving you a sunflower?

[Staci Wallace]

Actually, I think it is a GREAT idea. In fact, we could make it a social experiment that goes beyond your school. Let's do this, let's find a picture of a sunflower and begin posting it in people's pages here in the community.

You could tell them the same thing about passing it forward to see how many people we could spread the sunshine to and give a little hope.

Just because a few people "rain on your parade" doesn't mean you should stop marching. Keep up the spirit. Let your light shine. Though some will call you crazy, be crazy in love with letting God use you to be the voice of hope to the world around you!

;)

[Dayva Michele A.]

Would you mind if I stole your idea?
It sounds very interesting..

A lot of people at my school are like that also.
If the preppy people got a hold of it they would just give it to their group of people, not thinking about the lower stance of people who would be ecstatic about it.

Like imagine a "nerd" getting the flower from a "prep"... Imagine how bright it would make their day..
I know if I got a flower from the most social friendly guy at school I would be in woe. It would make my day.

[Holly Leckner]

Staci- That's a great idea. :) I'll have to start doing that today.

Dayva- Of course you can use it. Hopefully it works well for you.

[Dayva Michele A.]

I hope so too. (;

[Lauryn Hudgins]

Hey Holly, I'm in on it!

If you bring them to school again give me one so I can pass it around too!

Love you!
( I know we haven't talked since I moved back but we should)

[Jessica]

Great Idea! Love it! :)