It's about letting yourself be free. A Columbine is a fancy buttercup (Townes also spent a good amount of time in the city in Colorado.) The flower is a symbol for how fragile and momentary life is. One second you're alive, the next second you're plucked. No matter what you're going to die, so why waste any time? Why waste time on all the fancy pleasures when we know they are false and useless in the end?
It's about letting yourself be free. A Columbine is a fancy buttercup (Townes also spent a good amount of time in the city in Colorado.) The flower is a symbol for how fragile and momentary life is. One second you're alive, the next second you're plucked. No matter what you're going to die, so why waste any time? Why waste time on all the fancy pleasures when we know they are false and useless in the end?