THE CACTUS

"I think that the cactus is the most honest and authentic plant in the world. It doesn't say: "Oh look, I'm obviously pretty, it's easy to love me." The cactus says: "To love me it requires a different point of view: It's not easy to love me, I could hurt you. But I will be nice if you can love me anyway. If you are not afraid of loving me anyway. And if you see me in the right light, I will be beautiful and I will stay with you. Longer than the others. Our love will be resistant. Because I'm easier to maintain than the obviously beautiful flowers. My beauty is not transitory if you know how to love me. If you are capable to see beauty in vulnerability." - Sarah Eckardt