How can plants help us?

Have you ever looked at a plant and thought 'Wow, that small, living forest really reminds me of myself!'. It could be any plant: cacti, succulent, fern, rose, etc.. No? Me neither. But that's just because we need to help or feel something towards a person or object to recognise ourselves in it. Plants can help us yes, but we are not like them. We are humans (unless I have stumbled across a collection of robots reading this) with a variety of emotions, and a wheat field doesn't really cut it.

So why do I cover every single surface that I can to with plants? Humans can pack bond with anything but me having a special connection with a Venus fly trap isn't one to make me go to my local garden centre and sniff around. Plants may not mean anything to me, but there has to be some motive to getting them. So what is it?

Something about about nature does make us stop and admire it. Right now, my parents are doing yoga on a tiny patch of grass, I'm staring onto onto a large fern and the area around us is simply dotted with trees. Vegetation and plants can simply make you feel happier and healthier when looking at them. Something so natural that has such nice qualities can help us to feel peaceful. It brings a sense of hope, I mean, there's a reason why a dove brought a sprig of an olive branch for Noah. Something about it just seems so positive and hopeful.

So is that the reason why my room at home is filled top to toe with plants of all kind? No I don't think that's right either. I think that I surround myself with plants because they look pretty. They seem nice and make me feel good and if you ask me, that's a good enough reason to keep an inanimate object as any. There doesn't have to be a large meaning behind it, it just has to make you feel happy.

You may feel an inclination to keep your plants healthy. Water them, give them good sunlight so that maybe, eventually, it helps you to look after yourself more.

Get a plant, watch it grow, smile.