Things People Don’t Realise About Collecting Plants & Crystals (Until They Do)- Part 1

From the outside, collecting plants and crystals looks very calm.

Peaceful, even.

You picture someone gently misting leaves while soft music plays, sunlight streaming through the window, a cup of tea nearby, and everything looking like a Pinterest board titled “Serene Living.”

This is not entirely accurate.

1. You will develop emotional attachments to things that do not have emotions

You will absolutely refer to plants as “he” and “she.”

You will say things like, “She’s doing really well lately,” and “He didn’t like that new spot at all.”

You will move a plant three times in a week because you are convinced it “prefers” a different angle of sunlight.

The plant does not care. You do.

2. You will start noticing details other people cannot see

You’ll point at a plant and say, “Look at the margins on that!”

And the other person will nod politely while seeing only “green spiky thing.”

You’ll pick up a crystal and admire the internal inclusions, the glow, the way the light moves through it.

Other people: “It’s pink.”

You: “No. It’s Rose Quartz.”

3. You will learn that photographs lie (both ways)

Sometimes photos make things look better than they are.

Sometimes — and this is very important — photos make things look far worse than they are.

Subtle plants. Soft crystals. Gentle colour. These things don’t always “pop” on camera the way they do in real life.

You start to understand that photography is an art… and also occasionally your enemy.

Part 2 - Coming soon