Peaches and bananas
THE PEACHES AND BANANAS
In life as an individual, we view people in two perspectives, or fruits as I would like to classify them. Now one may wonder why I chose these fruits to represent the type of peoples we encounter in our daily lives. As you read along you will find out qualities of these people similar to these fruits and you will understand why is it that the same person you appreciate the most another person will look down upon and the reason why that person you wish they never existed other people cannot live without. Why some relations last long, some never ends and others will never be established at all. You will understand why you are the centre system in deciding who to trust love cooperate with hate despite and the rest. Welcome to peaches and bananas.
Let us look at a peach, in the literal sense, the fruit. How do you eat it? They are parts of it you eat and others you throw away. Well the inedible part is usually found at the centre of the fruit so you just enjoy it until you reach the core. (Unless there are those who consume the seed). In life there are those kinds’ people we see them as peaches. They are those that we appreciate a lot about them and we like working and spending time with them as much as we could. The so called ‘nice person’ and we identify them by the fact that you just met them and right away you are already in touch. In most cases we meet them on Facebook, you just receive a friend request, you accept it with no idea in mind who the person is and by night fall your inbox is busy. Don’t mark me wrong here I am not referring to the love seekers who flirt with you online, here I am talking about just a friend, any gender. Days will pass by and you are still chatting and you might have met in real life. And then all of a sudden that very person will start to irritate you. Here now you are reaching the centre of the peach, whereby you pretend to still like the person, from pretend is ignoring them which is the last stage. Everything just vanished you have reached the seed, the inedible part of the peach. What really went wrong?
Now let us look again at the bananas, you peel it off and enjoy what is within. (unless you consume the peels, but I hope you get my point). These are the rare kinds of people we meet in life, and they are our best friends, role models and hero and sometimes our family especially our mum and dad. They are few in our lives because you have to deal with the peels first before tolerating with them. The peels here are the certain characters you despise and they are the first to be displayed to you. The kinds that irritate you but you dearly miss them in their absence in my case is my little brother. We would argue about just small things day in and day out, but wait until he is not here, especially when I am at school I would just think about him. It might not be a brother or sister but a cousin of your age mate whom you would fight with, just anyone. You will identify them by their qualities you have in you, or all of a sudden you began to imitate them. You hear people saying that you did some things like that person or saying the words they like to say. How many times have you said they irritate you and that you hate them? But then how come in their absence you miss them? How come now that you have grown up they are the first people you contact when in need or in trouble or to tell the good news to? What happened?
Well in life as individuals the people we meet in life have the good sides and the bad sides. We are at the centre of deciding whether they are the peaches or bananas. Why all a sudden that person began to irritate you? It is simply because you are the one busy struggling and trying to chew the seed of a peach, ignoring the rest or the fruit.
Why is it that we have few people we trust, and there are many family disputes, it is because they never tried to peel off the bananas to enjoy it but busy chewing the peels, that very small mistake you did, the peel, is a big issue to them. They like eating banana peels that is why they never forgive even their mothers.
How then is it like they are those who never have trouble with anyone, or should I say how we as Christians should live, read acts 10 it teaches us that we should appreciate each and every individual we meet in life and it can only become possible by one thing. Doing everything is the name of Christ, for by so doing you will be awarded with a gift to be able to avoid the inedible parts. You will have the ability to enjoy the peach without reaching the seed or to be able to not go struggle with the peels but enjoy the banana. For the bible tells us to judge not so that we may not be judged. That is why in my life I never believed that they are bad people but only the good ones. No matter how people may tell you about the bad side of some person you will still find it worthy to be close to that person. It is because you are concentrating on the edible sides only and ignored the rest. And the fact that there are gossipers is because they are jealous so they waste their energy chewing peels of the banana. If you are nice to them they just drill through the peach and sweat on the seed that is why they are good at finding out the bad of other people, the same applies on those who cannot forgive.
How we view the peaches and the bananas is the basement of how we establish relations of all kinds. But here is more, relationships or love affairs that are banana or peach never last, reason being that they need another level. The love affairs introduce us to a fruit by the name of strawberry, the ones no matter what, whenever you think of them you smile, the heart pounds faster and you feel hot even in the middle of winter. The ones when they pass by you feel like in heaven, your hair stands and their voice is jingle bells to your ears… well the strawberries are a topic for another day
Life though
Good morning
Author Neo Charisma Masetlane
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