不一定要變得尖銳冷酷
聞過西伯利亞冷杉的人，第一個反應通常是：怎麼會這樣甜。
西伯利亞冷杉是世界上生長得最北的一種冷杉。它的生長範圍從西伯利亞一直伸進北極圈，最冷的時候，要撐住攝氏零下五十度的極寒。
在整個冷杉家族裡面，它是較為甜美的一位。
其他同屬的冷杉，聞起來多少都帶一點松節油般的衝勁，但它卻沒有。除了一開始有一點像寒風刺穿鼻腔，瞬間帶你走進一片冰天雪地之外，餘下的全是甜美。那種感覺，猶如柔軟的雪花融在手心那一下的沁甜。
就連它的針葉都是軟的。尖端是圓的，有些甚至微微凹下去，摸上手一點也不扎人。
聞著的時候，整個人像被冰天雪地的森林輕輕圍住，可以好好靜下來與自己對話。
這份氣息，安靜地帶來了一種啟發：平靜柔軟地面對各種嚴峻的考驗，也是一種生存的姿態。遇到難熬的日子，我們總以為要變得滿身是刺才能保護自己；但冷酷地對待一切，或許只會令事情變得更冷更難。
願你在這抹柔軟的沁甜裡明白，即使經歷過嚴寒，也不一定要變得尖銳冷酷。你依然可以保留心底的那份柔軟。
以香為語，安在當下。
𝘽𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩.
The cold need not turn you cold.
Most people who smell Siberian fir for the first time say the same thing: how can it be this sweet?
Siberian fir is the northernmost growing fir in the world. Its range runs from Siberia right up into the Arctic Circle, and at the coldest it has to hold out against minus fifty degrees Celsius.
Of the whole fir family, it is the sweeter-tempered one.
The other firs of the genus all carry a little of that turpentine edge; this one does not. There is a moment at the opening like cold wind driven through the nose, and in an instant you are walking into ice and snow. After that, all of it is sweetness. The feeling is a soft flake of snow melting in the palm of the hand, and the sweetness of that one moment.
Even the needles are soft. The tips are rounded, some of them faintly notched, and they do not prick the hand at all.
Breathing it in, you are gently closed round by a forest under snow, with room to settle and to talk things over with yourself.
Quietly, the scent puts something to us: to meet hard trials with calm and with softness is also a way of getting through. On days that are difficult to bear, we assume we have to be covered in spines before we are safe. Yet to treat everything coldly may only leave things colder, and harder.
May this soft, sweet trace leave you knowing that, having been through the cold, you need not turn sharp or cold yourself. The softness you hold inside is still yours to keep.
Grounded in the present, spoken through scent.
𝘽𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩.