I got a wax rose a couple of weeks ago, I hung it upside down like the man who sold it to me suggested I do. Overtime I've noticed the leaves caving into each other, wrapping around the stem, and evidence of decay underneath the bright, glittery orange wax. The point of this is that I immediately thought how strange it was knowing that underneath the pleasant exterior there was something slowly dying on the inside, and eventually the fully decayed dust of the once rose will just be trapped inside the wax, forced to hold it's shape. Which made me mutter, "people are like wax roses". I feel that people are often pushed to their limits to hold t