Why Do We Send Flowers?

For me, life is precious mainly because it is. It's a precious miracle. Enjoy and make the best of this bodily life while it lasts. The fleeting nature of one's bodily life is certainly one factor in it being precious. l remember as a young child thinking/hoping I would be the one person God would spare from dying -- that hope is almost entirely gone. I became aware of life's being valuable related to its fleeting nature as a child -- when my dear grandmother died when I was almost 7, when others died when I was a child, when I was an altar boy as a child and served at many funerals and witnessed peoples' intense grief, sadness, and crying. What helps me appreciate impermanence is that it's all around, everything comes and goes, and learning to accept and appreciate that that is how existence is.