Painting Pictures in the Mind

My reflection, tell the story of your life while you still have life. If you can, actually pen it down.

A Rose. Why would something so beautiful also have prickles? But here is the thing, even if those prickles can poke you, they are not actually thorns, the difference being a thorn is a part of a branch modified for physical defence whereas prickles are modified epidermal cells similar to skin cells in humans. Having said that, wild roses do have thorns