why i don't like receiving flowers

Last Saturday, a groundbreaking discovery was made. 

I had just come back from having more of these cute little things attached to my veins,

when a large majority of my family met at my house for a small get-well-soon-get-together thing. I was surrounded by people, chocolate, Pringles and well-meaning copies of Vogue magazine. And, for the first time ever, I had been bought flowers.

Now, don't get me wrong, flowers are cute when they're alive and growing in soil, flourishing in the sunshine and swaying beneath the clouds, buuuut when they're been grown purely to be ripped out of their roots, tied with ribbon and wrapped in roughly manufactured plastic covers, I kind of don't want to be the beholder of them. 

I only realised that fact then, as I was handed a bunch of soon-to-be-dying yellow sunflowers. The realisation slapped me twice across my cheek and then once across the back of my head. It was obvious. I don't like receiving flowers.

Of course, I smiled and thanked my cousin for the DYING METAPHOR OF OUR FRIENDSHIP, but inside, I was internally groaning.

I don't want to sound like a horrible person, but for me to receive a bunch of dying lifeforms is a bit disheartening. Like, "here you go Amy; I know you're ill and would love some Ben & Jerry's or the newest Rachel Caine novel, but I'm going to be conventional and buy you something completely pointless, the one thing that billions of people are constantly bought again and again. It took exactly zero percent thoughtfulness and imagination, and it's going to slowly suffer as you watch it die - there's nothing you can do of course - but hey, here's some flowers. Get well soon!"

Okay, so that might be a slight exaggeration, and please don't think that I'm ungrateful as the sunflowers are beautiful, but at the same time, I would be a lot happier with a movie or even a cactus. Save the dying flowers for someone else.

Does anyone else in the whole entire universe agree with me, or am I the only conventional-flower-gift hater out here? Let me know!

~Don't even get me started on Christmas cards~