It's our perspective of things, without understanding, that can leave us in a state of ignorance. Often, the perception of something on the surface can create both exaggerated positive or negative connotations, which can lead us down a path of false pretence. Sometimes these false pretences can lead to false blame or blame for shortcomings that have been constructed based on our own lack of understanding.

A brown apple hanging from a tree is a metaphor for life in the sense that the image of a brown apple appears sick, lonely, and inadequate for consumption, which may be a the case. However, the apple is brown through no fault of its own. The inability for it to grow strong and fulfill its potential begins from the roots of the tree from which it hangs. The roots absorb the nutrients that power the plant and subsequent growth in order to bear fruit. If the roots and the base have not established a deep enough foundation and formed a strong enough base, then it's the fruit that will bear the consequences.

Our lives are constructed by a sequence of processes that form and establish our base. Our base powers the systems and absorbs the nutrients that help us to grow, and that growth dictates the potential and subsequent quality of the fruit that we produce. If we are unable to form and construct a base, develop roots that can seek and absorb the necessary nutrients to power our plant, then how can we expect to bear fruit suitable for eating?

Failure to develop the roots, the systems, and processes to absorb the nutrients required to grow the plant, to bear the fruit, simply leaves us with brown apples. It's not the brown apple's fault that it's brown, yet the brown apple is blamed for its unhealthy and inadequate growth. Meanwhile, the plant, the roots, the base from which it provided its life are left intact, to continue to bear more fruit. There may be some apples that it will produce that are fine; however, the brown apple represents a disjointed system, a flawed system, a faulty system from the roots up.

In order for us to be the best versions of ourselves, we must grow from the base, form the systems, and structures that can help us grow the most nutrient-rich and healthy apples possible. If we can produce good quality apples, then that creates the never needing cycle of growth and improvement as it feeds the positive nutrients back into our lives, this form of habit and output puts us in a fundamentally strong position in our search for happiness.

Thanks,

Dean