Girls are like apples...

"Girls are like apples on trees. The best ones are at the top of the tree. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples from the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when in reality, they're amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree."

This is a portion of a bulletin that I typed up a while back and posted on MySpace and received a few dozen comments on it from different people, and now I have found it all over the Internet. This is the same exact wording that I used and it has made its way all over the web. In fact, if you Google, "girls like apples" there will be a few places that this text appears. It's not that I am looking to receive credit for this but as I expand on this excerpt I didn't want any of y'all to think that I was writing about something somebody else had already wrote about. The parallel between girls and apples goes far beyond the small section above.

Girls hold on to that vine. Hold onto it tight. Don't be too weak so that wind and rain and stormy weather will overcome you and make you fall. Don't let the hardships in life make you lose your dignity. Hold on to that vine. Once you fall you are vulnerable to being picked up by any guy. You may look appealing on the ground, but not for long. You will still find guys who will want you, but it wont be the guy you should want. They will be the guys that are too lazy too climb up into the tree and search for you. You want a guy that will look up into the tree, realize the best is further up and harder to reach, but will give all that it takes and will go home and get the ladder or will climb up the tree, moving other dangling apples away with his hand and then admire you with all your beauty and choose you. Girls hold on to that vine. Don't let go until someone deserves you.
Guys, don't be the shallow guy who is too lazy to climb the tree. Don't visit the apple orchard until you are ready to climb. And when you get to the tree don't take the easy way out by choosing the apples that have fallen onto the ground. Don't be afraid of heights. Don't be too scared to stretch to the top to grab the most precious apple that you see. Just as there will always be that guy who will pick up the dead apple, there will always be that girl who will purposely fall to the ground and look good on the outside, but will not be what you want.
All of you girls who are still hanging on- don't for a second think that something is wrong with you. Y'all are the heroes. Y'all are the prettiest and the best. Just because the guys in our age have become too shallow to make that climb does not mean for a second that you have something wrong with you. On a tree you grow, you ripen and you mature. On the ground you go bad or get stuck with a guy who wont treat you like you deserve. So when you go to school each morning and see Ms. Slut(and you all have seen her) don't for a second wish that that was you. Don't ever envy her pretty face or perfect body, because the guy you deserve wont base his decision on those two reasons, and the guy you deserve will know that you are beautiful, and the guy you deserve will make the climb over her just to get to you. It may not happen as fast as you like, but it will happen. Don't ever forget that and loosen your grip upon that vine. Hold onto that vine. Soon a guy will climb that tree just for you and you will be the apple of his eye.


The original bulletin was a little bit longer and perhaps clearer but this was most of the points. The main point of me writing it years ago was because I had a few friends who over and over have been hurt by undeserving guys. It's not worth it girls. And guys, make the climb, and if you aren't able, then come back when you are able. I'm going to post a article on chivalry soon also so stay posted!