I paused. I froze. "Did you paint the petals?", I asked her. "Ofcourse not, how can you paint a rose!", she rebutted. She sensed my confusion and continued "we inject them when they are buds!". My mind exploded, I looked at my friend and said "we haven't left flowers alone either now". We inject flowers to make them look 'beautiful'! Really? As a species are we not capable of appreciating anything genuine? Are we so consumed in selling 'beauty', creating our own definitions of what is beautiful that we forget to embrace the authentic? London, United Kingdom. September 2019 #london #england #unitedkingdom #igeruk #iguk #instauk #everydayuk #everydayeveryphoto #roses #artificialplants #latergram #sujatakhanna #sujatakhannaphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/B4aHxeApHgn/?igshid=1soj6ryyrgujx