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Florists have to deal with many different customers for many different occasions and they must be tactful and professional. I would imagine dealing with one customer who is sending flowers for a birthday, with balloons and a teddy bear, to dealing with a grieving widow who just lost her husband and is trying to pick the perfect arrangement for her to say goodbye with, just seems like an amazingly difficult task. Switching modes from client to client must really have its challenges, and also meeting their needs for each occasion and on each person's individual budget. Choosing the right flowers and accessories to make the correct impression is probably most challenging of all.

I like to send flowers to people, accept when we have to send flowers for a funeral. Needless to say, I don't like to send flowers then, but I know that it is necessary and usually is very much appreciated by the person's family in their time of grieving. I know that the one time my brother and I sent a flower arrangement when a friend of my father's died suddenly, we had always called him uncle and so it just seemed fitting to send an arrangement with a banner that said beloved uncle on it. Well, apparently my aunt was very comforted by the fact that we thought enough to send such a loving arrangement to him, since we were actually not really related at all.

These are some of the reasons that florists are so important, they can provide comfort to a loved one in their time of need, and they can let someone know that we are thinking about them and that we care. I know most people have not really thought about the level of importance of this position in our society, however if you truly look at it there are flowers in many of the important events in our lives. We receive flowers when a child is born, when we get married, and when we die. Those are 3 pretty big transitions in which flowers play an integral part. In addition to that you will most likely receive flowers, when you get engaged, when you get ill, when you celebrate a special birthday or anniversary, and pretty much any time that anything extra special occurs.

Flowers and florists are an important part of our society and part of our culture.