熱情很好，但不需燃燒殆盡。

對一件事充滿熱情，是一股美好的推動力。但如果任由它無止盡地燒下去，最終只會把內在的力氣耗光。

當太在意、太想把一件事做好時，很容易就陷入過度執著的狀態。腦袋不停運轉，直到整個頭部感到緊繃、發脹。這種過載，就像大腦自己發起了一場高燒，一直在透支身心的能量。

夏白菊的英文名 Feverfew 來自拉丁字 febrifugia，意思是退熱。中文有人叫它解熱菊。它原生於歐洲，喜歡充足日照與乾燥的沙土，是歷史悠久的藥草。兩千多年來，傳統上一直被用來退燒、降溫、解頭痛。

它的樣子相當溫和，白色小花配黃色花心，像縮小一號的雛菊。氣味卻不太可愛，沒有討喜的甜香。迎面而來的是一股極具穿透力的草本氣息，宛如揉碎了一把新鮮的野菊與枯草。隨著呼吸深入，這股銳利會慢慢轉化為一種微澀涼涼的青草感。

這樣的氣息，恰好對應它所處理的狀態。它把積聚在頭頂那股過載的能量往下帶，讓僵住的思緒重新流動。這時候往往會發現，很多原本以為非要不可的執著，其實並沒有那麼絕對。

熱情本身沒有錯，只是需要懂得調節。就像在山上行走，不必一直計算還有多遠才到山頂。先看清這一步踩在什麼位置，再安穩地走下一步就好。

以香為語，安在當下。
𝘽𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩.

Passion is good — but it doesn't need to burn itself out.

Being full of passion for something is a wonderful driving force. But left to burn without end, it will eventually burn through everything you have inside.

When we care too much, or want too badly to get something right, it's easy to slip into a state of over-fixation. The mind keeps turning and turning, until the whole head feels tight and swollen. This kind of overload feels like the brain running its own fever, constantly overdrawing on your body and mind.

The English name Feverfew comes from the Latin febrifugia, meaning "fever dispeller" — in Chinese it is sometimes called the "fever-cooling chrysanthemum." Native to Europe, thriving in full sun and dry, sandy soil, it is a herb with a long history: for over two thousand years, tradition held that it was used to bring down fevers, cool the body, and ease headaches.

Its appearance is gentle enough — small white petals around a yellow centre, like a miniature daisy. But its scent is anything but sweet or endearing. What meets you is a sharply penetrating herbal note, as if a handful of fresh wild chrysanthemum and dried grass had been crushed together. As you breathe deeper, that sharpness slowly softens into a faintly tart, cool, grassy feeling.

This scent corresponds neatly to the state it addresses. It draws the overloaded energy pooled at the top of your head back down, letting frozen thoughts start moving again. In moments like this, you often find that many of the fixations you thought were non-negotiable weren't so absolute after all.

There's nothing wrong with passion itself — it simply needs to be paced. Like walking up a mountain: there's no need to keep calculating how much further to the summit. Just see clearly where this one step lands, then take the next one steadily.

Grounded in the present, spoken through scent.
𝘽𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩.