Orchid friendship vs. Cactus friendship

When you compare things, it is often useful to catalogue them in groups, because it is better to draw conclusions. For example, people can be grouped in unpunctual or late comers, in short or tall...n hard workers or lazy-bastards...with many shades in between!

With friendship you can do the same, but I have to say that one division I like the most is the one noted in the title: Orchid friendship and Cactus friendship. But what is it each one of them I shall explain:

Orchids look really nice, smooth, colourful, the prototype of a flower, but they are very difficult to grow, they need lots of humidity, certain amount of sunshine, special trees to grow on. What for? One could ask Just to have a dozen of flowers a year. Too much bother.

Cacti tend not to be as gracious as orchids are. They are usually, but not always, a single falic structure full or spikes, not inviting you to be nearby. But God they are rugged! They need virtually nothing to survive, no water, even salty soil is good, no matter how much sun or UV light. They thrive, millimetre by millimetre and year after year, on the hardest of the situations. What for? One could ask. Typically to have a single, marvellous flower, more often than not the only coloured dot within miles, just a little occasional happy note in a desert of emptiness. 

Cactus friendships are the best for me! You don’t need to pay attention to them every day, week or month. Once a year, sometimes less, is good. You don’t have to “give then water” every other day; just a little phone call from the distant is more than rewarding for them. But when you see Cactus friends together, they blossom like no others do. Plenty of colours that had been kept away from the burning sun of distance. Plenty of love halted for maybe a year. Plenty things to be talked about since the last time they were together. Plenty and plenty or cold beers or tempered bitter to be drunk in the Pub.

I have a lot of cactus friends in my life and I am thankful for that, for I am a cactus person and therefore cactus friends suits me better that delicate orchids! From time to time I see one of those old cacti that have been by my side for years. We are always happy to see each other like no time would have pass, apart from a little fat over where or less hair on top of there.

All my Orchid friends, I guess they dried out long time ago, as I cannot think in many of them

As Bruce Lee would (almost) say in a commercial:

"Be Cactus my friend!"