Letters to My Unborn Son #2: On People

People are the fruit of the Earth, so much like an Apple is to a Tree.

“A tree Apples and the Earth Peoples: — Alan Watts

People are the fruit of the Earth, so much like an apple is to a tree. The tree takes it’s time growing up and finally bears fruit. The apple grows and matures but has little say in the matter and only two possibilities for it’s future exist.

Maybe, they are even the same in a way, It could be a crab apple, a bit sour, left on the branch until over ripened then falling to the ground.

It is returned to the Earth nurturing her, providing nutrients to the soil. Or, maybe it’s a red delicious apple, sweet and juicy. Birds pick at it, insects live in it, or it is harvested and sent to the grocery store.

It is being given to you, the apple, or to life to be enjoyed. It’s purpose is simply to help sustain other forms of life. It is life at the height of beauty and working perfection.

In effect, either scenario is the same. It nurtures either way and even looks beautiful in the process, yet the apple has no choice. The best outcome is for life to benefit from it, other life.

People are really the same, yet I believe unlike the apple, we have a choice. You can sit alone being sour like a crab apple, eventually getting returned to the earth in a box nurturing worms. Or, you can commit to being enjoyed by everyone you meet. Sharing your beauty, your bright cheerful color, your sweet taste and nature.

Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self. — Karen Salmansohn

You can create a product from this just like the apple and off to the market you go. It really is your one and only choice, one commitment and from it sprouts the rest of your life’s circumstances.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. — Wayne Dyer

It’s very much the same in the apple orchard. Apples fall spreading seeds getting nestled in the soil, they will sprout the following spring. The first tree provided the falling apple creating the second tree. The new tree will then in turn shed apples that will nurture the soil for both trees.

The youthful people you nurture will pay into the Earth’s system of finances allowing you to be nurtured after your ability to create money diminishes.

The cycle continues.

Cheers, Christopher

Goodness is about character — integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. — Dennis Prager