The Best Way To Pick A Person Is Not To Pick Them

“By nature’s law, we’d never pick a flower we actually wanted to keep. The only way to keep it is not to pick it. Yet, I work with a lot of people who are seen for their flowership in the beginning of relationships, who end up wilting until eventually they’re picked by someone who was “only trying to keep them,” which ends up being the thing that kills them on the inside.”