Cactus blooms to brighten our day
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How amazing they look! Thanks for sharing with us!
I hope to have a garden myself one day when I'm a proper grown up. I have this plant on my window shelf which was nearly dead by the time I got sober cause I abandoned it a bit in my late drinking days. Anyway, in the first days of my recovery I planted it into a new, bigger pot, took away the rotten roots, gave it fresh soil and since then have been watering it regularly, adding some fertiliser every other week and it looks all healthy and strong again! It's grown quite a bit and produced loads of new leaves (it makes green and red ones too). It has never looked that good.
I think of it as my sober-twin as our recovery began at the same time. And lots of what I did to the plant I did to myself too: abandoning myself, not taking care, then feeling half dead, putting in all energy I had left to focus on recovery by removing the 'rotten' parts (for me that's not as physical as for the plant of course, more of a metaphor), creating a new environment where I can grow, taking good care of myself.
Whenever I feel down or have a bad day in my recovery, I look at my plant, how strong and willing to live it is and I remember that's what I want too.
I hope to have a garden myself one day when I'm a proper grown up. I have this plant on my window shelf which was nearly dead by the time I got sober cause I abandoned it a bit in my late drinking days. Anyway, in the first days of my recovery I planted it into a new, bigger pot, took away the rotten roots, gave it fresh soil and since then have been watering it regularly, adding some fertiliser every other week and it looks all healthy and strong again! It's grown quite a bit and produced loads of new leaves (it makes green and red ones too). It has never looked that good.
I think of it as my sober-twin as our recovery began at the same time. And lots of what I did to the plant I did to myself too: abandoning myself, not taking care, then feeling half dead, putting in all energy I had left to focus on recovery by removing the 'rotten' parts (for me that's not as physical as for the plant of course, more of a metaphor), creating a new environment where I can grow, taking good care of myself.
Whenever I feel down or have a bad day in my recovery, I look at my plant, how strong and willing to live it is and I remember that's what I want too.
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