In our busy lives, we may quite easily forget who we are, what we’re aiming for, what makes us happy. Perhaps the most devastating part is that we forget our mortality. Sure, there are complaints about discomforts here and there, but we live as if we are immortal creatures: microwaved food feasts, parties (homework inclusive) spanning the night, couch potato vacations. The catchphrases “YOLO” (you only live once) and “carpe diem” (seize the day) are not encouragements for all of us to hit every bar in town and regret about the experience afterward – absolutely not. It is for us to re-evaluate our lives and sort out our priorities. We must accept our mortality for what it is. As Leonardo da Vinci had said, “a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”
The stalks of these flowers are already dried up, but their blossoms are preserved and kept fresh by the medical infusion bags. The life-span of every living creature is limited. The infusion bags stand for the progress in medicine and the prolongation of human life. They somehow carry an ambivalent message as they refer to both death and life the same time. To preserve the beauty of the flowers artifically with the help of the infusion bags points out man’s inclination to repress the fact that he has to die and to postpone death. [source]
