Cherry blossoms, with it's pinkish, reddish and whitish colors represent to me the word gentleness.

And the following is what I interpret from this acrylic painting I did, which I title "Gentleness Blossoming":

Harsh and Gentle

We are often too harsh to ourselves. We judge, critique and diminish ourselves in our minds through thoughts, inner talk and the emotions we accept and allow us to stay in. This is in no way supportive I have found for myself because it leads only to the exact same trail: Self-Diminishment. And then I lose the joy to live; the motivation to do anything, for a moment. It is in no way a supportive and creative way to open up, look at and work through our problems or challenges we may face - inner (what we experience; how we feel) or outer (our world, our reality). If we allowed ourselves to be more gentle to ourselves and others too, approaching self and others in more understanding, consideration, care and a starting point of 'I am solution oriented. I am going to find a solution for this and that problem or challenge in me and my world', then we would progress, advance and reach so much more inside us and our world. Creating and making more room for realizations and change to come through. Instead of remaining stuck in this pattern of being way too harsh to ourselves and others, which isn't going to yield, mostly, any supportive outcome where we or the other person will have realizations and learn from and have an 'Aha, I see!'-moment -- we could be more gentle, supportive - without judgement or diminishment of self and others - and yield much greater outcomes and impacts on seeing ourselves or others through problems or challenges faced internally or in our world and reality.

Let the Gentleness Flower Blossom

And like the flowers of the cherry blossom trees blossom, let us cultivate, create and blossom our gentleness within and live it both within ourselves towards ourselves as well as in the world to and towards other life forms.

It hasn't worked; Time for a Change

We have been harsh, hard and destructive long enough - for eons of time - to ourselves and others. It isn’t working. Time for a ‘revolution’ in this sense, if you will, and develop, express and live gentleness towards life - self and others.

Thank you!
Do well,
Nebi :)