four-leaf jasmine?

i am lucky. i usually get pretty darn good parking spaces. i always seem to find great deals on clothes and shoes. i manage to make the best out of f-ups i make at work and in fact, make it look like i pulled a rabbit out of the proverbial hat at the last minute. i was always a "B" student, regardless of how hard, or how little, i tried at school. things have generally come easy for me, and i'm thankful for that.

but i think my luck has run out. this past weekend, i had to trim down my beloved jasmine plant yet again. i went 10 days without watering it, which is not something i've never done before. sometimes i overwater and that's not good for her either. but this time, for some reason, she decided she wasn't going to make it easy for me to revive her.

she's trimmed to the bare twigs and it's not looking promising. the bottom twigs are brown, not green, so those are basically just tubes for transporting nutrients further up the way. but there isn't a lot of green to be seen right now, and i don't think the tide will turn in my favour.

it was a $7.00 plant - i got it at home depot on the clearance rack. it was just a small plant, but it managed to bloom again this summer, there was an abundance of the fragrant, little white flowers this summer. that might be the last for awhile.

just a reminder that i should never just rely on my luck to get me by in life - that life requires active participation and nurturing in order to flourish. as far as reminders go, i think i'd rather lose a plant than lose something else.