on roses

Roses are red
Violets are blue
A rock in my head
I'm feeling blue!!

Haha, a parody isn't it? Nice...

Let's talk about roses, shall we? I was just thinking about how people seem to think that roses are symbols of love. It's culturally socieatally inherited and taught throughout the generations that roses means love and passion. I don't remember this as being a revealed knowledge though ; )

Well, what I had in mind was between real roses and artificial roses. Red roses and bleached roses which are more interestingly coloured than just bloooddyyy rrredd.
There was even the hiden meaning behind the number of roses given to a special someone and even the colour of the roses means something, for example, one stalk of rose would mean 'you're the only one for me,' and blue rose (yey my fave) would mean eternal love. I don't even remember the exact meaning behind these by the way. (simple simple things like these just don't stick to mind). The problem comes when deciding whether to give real roses which don't really last that long, guaranteed life span of a week, or the artificial ones, paper roses or crocheted ones or they call it bunga plastikkK, which, admit it, they last longer, despite the dust they accumulate.

So does giving real roses, which is "romantic" and gives a pleasure feeling of tender loving care, but then will survive within a week, UNLESS, you're good with roses -survival, which, not many of us do. Does that mean, the love will only last for a week? (Okay, i'm gonna get a hearing from people who DO GET ROSES.) But on the other side, giving artifical roses, which looks just exactly like the real roses but it stays longer, therefore metaphorically the feeling stays longer? And not to say cheaper than a dozen of real roses. But they say artifical roses = artificial love = cheapskate!! But it stays longer for GOD's sake! But dried (is it dried or is there a better term for it??) roses stays longer too!! Only it turns brown and crunchy~hmmm, provoking aren't I? ; )