Apples

The things you learn as a child are like a tree, they have roots deep down into your everyday life and they provide a sturdy, trusty foundation for the rest of your life. There is room to grow up, to build up one that foundation but it always comes back down to the basis. There is a saying that the apple never falls far from the tree. Meaning that children are like their parents. In many ways parents encourage their children to stay in the orchard, they don’t want them to fall far from the tree because when they are close they will have the same nourishment, the same atmosphere and the same nutrients as the parent tree has, hopefully this means that the sapling will grow big and strong like the parent tree. Sometimes however the apple seed gets carried just a bit farther. Not far enough to be out of the shadow but close enough to see what’s out there. Close enough to wonder what it would be like to leave the shadows of the orchard. The main problem is that once you leave to orchard you might not want to come back. And if you don’t come back you lose the comfort and consistency of those around you. Once you leave the orchard you will change and change like that is not considered a good thing. So you remain on the edge, halfway in and halfway out, wanting to experience the new but scared of what life may bring without the old.