Picture Life: support (or lack of)

I've posted two photos today (not quite a la Your Waitress Photos...). They are linked in a way, one, a photos up the stalk to the flower (not blooming at the moment) of a lotus. It shows it being supported by a small, twisty-tied tube. The second, a small vine of some sort growing up, twisting and bending, without any support at all. Right into mid air...