Thank you for the wonderful comment Emilio! It is true that Japanese don't say anything in that kind of situation but as you say we should do what we feel by heart! I didn't know that Spanish also say nothing. I found your English to be great! I don't need to correct!

Hi Hisako. I would like to add my comment because I find myself in this situation many times. First of all, I admire Japanese devotion for nature, and how modest you show yourself by feeling grateful for the lesson that the flowers taught you. I discovered as well in the past years that nature helps you on your way, teaches you, talks to you when you are able to listen to her voice. It seems like there is a perfect order in nature, and we shouldn't break it, like it was bad in your text what that woman did with the flower. The same way we shouldn't act and say nothing as Japanese way suggests in this situation. We should let the woman find in the next corner a Spanish guy like me who would reproach her what she did as something awful :) I always ask myself if should I tell the person doing the bad thing something or let her go and find her lesson on her way for herself. I think we should do what we feel by heart in every moment. Allow ourselves being a sort of Heaven's messengers. Sometimes we feel we don't need to take part, avoiding a fight we don't need or want in that moment, and other times we feel as if life would ask ourselves to say it, to help the person and make her in this case aware of what's wrong because it seems he/she is not able to understand. The way you tell him/her it's up to you. Some people need a shout and being ashamed in front of many people to learn the lesson by a shock, and with others only a quiet and calm advice would work. I feel that life is always testing us and our evolution and growing up as human beings and souls is being tested all the time by these life events. But it's great when we are aware of a lesson inside that moment :) Because we can feel it, we can take it and take advantage of it. Thank you for sharing your story. Greetings from Spain! (By the way, my English is not perfect at all, so corrections are welcome as well!)