Sunday, July 15, 2007

Apples and Oranges – a metaphorical comparison.

Lets just say for a moment that you could never have both apples and oranges. You had to choose one or the other. And if for some reason, you decided to pick the apple but snuck a bite of an orange, then you could have neither.

So, for arguments sake, lets compare the two:

Apples are comfortable. They give you what you need every time. Completely reliable and somewhat predictable. There is a degree of satisfaction that you glean from the apple. Because of its predictable nature, you can pretty much get whatever response you want from it. If you need comfort, there it is. If you need affection, you got it. The apple pretty much delivers each and every time. Consistant, but a little boring.

Oranges are exciting. Just the thought of the orange can give your tummy those fun butterflies. The orange is somewhat mysterious. An enigma. You never know how that fruit is going to taste until you bite into it. Some days it can be the sweetest thing you have ever tasted, and then the very next time you try it, it can be bitter and hard to swallow. But the sweet days, oh the sweet days, are so intoxicating that you can almost forget when it disappoints…..almost.

I thought about the idea of making a scrumptious fruit salad. How cool would it be to take the best parts of each fruit and have them both at once? But honestly, this entire discussion is pointless because I cant have apples. Not anymore. I have developed a sensitivity to pectin or something and I can no longer eat them. If I did, it would be bad. I just wish I could make the orange a little more apple-like. Honestly, I really enjoy the excitement I get from the orange. It is a hell of a lot of fun. But I miss the reliability and the comfort of the apples. I don’t think the orange can ever be capable of providing me with that.

While I realize that there is a lot more fruit out there for me to taste, I know some things for sure.
~I have to stay away from the apples. Looking to them for comfort will only cause me to get a tummy ache.
~I cannot let myself get attached to the orange. Because there is a very real possibility that the fruit will turn bitter on me. And I don’t want to keep going back for another taste and get sour time after time. That doesn’t sound like fun.

I wish I didn’t like fruit so much. But I don’t think I would any be happier if I went the rest of my life without it. Whats that old saying? Its better to have tasted the fruit and gotten sick then never to have eaten fruit at all???

Yea. Something like that.


13 comments:

Karen said...

You know what they say. "Fruit: You can't live with 'em, you can't live without 'em." Or something like that. ;)

Great post.

Tara said...

If I recall you had an orange for many years didn't you? Orange not only lost its sweetness.. it got more and more bitter the more you tried to approach it... It hung out with other bitter oranges... and even fell off a couple of trees and got dented. It made you sick. Sometimes the sweetness of a food can actually hypnotize us into NOT remembering how sick we got last time we had it.
Call me boring.. but I know for certain you can't make an orange .. apple-like. But if you try.. you can add a little sweet surprise to your apple. I love mine dipped in caramel or peanut butter.. mmm apples and peanut butter.. sweet, salty AND sticky. damn it all now I'm hungry or horny.. I'm not sure which LOL

carrie said...

Dammit Tara!!! I cant have apples!

Twisted Cinderella said...

Heck, I say you throw out the oranges and the apples and go look for a kiwi maybe it will have the best parts of the apple and the orange.

Tara said...

OR...
forget apples and oranges and go for something more practical
like a banana.. or a cucumber. Now THAT would be smart.

Anonymous said...

Brilliant idea

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