23/10/2025
After four years of giving my heart and soul to my job, they fired me over dropping a coffee cup and a Coke bottle from my tray. I had just finished a 14-hour shift, I was exhausted, and it was an accident. But my boss called me pathetic and told me to be ashamed of myself. Those words broke something inside me because I'm already someone who's really hard on myself.
I couldn't get out of bed for days. I kept hearing her voice calling me worthless. My husband and my little girl watched me fall apart, and it hurt them to see me like that.
Then one morning, I woke up to this. My husband had filled our entire living room with sunflowers, and my daughter was wearing this beautiful matching sunflower outfit that he had ordered for her. She ran up to me with the biggest smile and said, "Mommy, you're like the sunshine, so we brought sunshine to you!"
I just started crying, but for the first time in weeks, they were happy tears.
That same morning, I checked my phone and found three orders waiting for me on the Tedooo app. Three people wanted me to create custom sunflower arrangements for them. I had started my little flower arranging shop there just before everything fell apart, but I never imagined it would take off like this.
My husband looked at me and said, "See? Other people see your worth even when you can't see it yourself. Maybe that job wasn't meant for you. Maybe this is."
Six months later, my sunflower business has grown beyond anything I ever dreamed. Every arrangement I create reminds me that sometimes the most beautiful things grow from the darkest soil. And my daughter? She still wears sunflower outfits and tells everyone her mommy makes people happy with flowers.
That boss was wrong about me. I'm not pathetic. I'm a sunflower, and I turn toward the light.