We Are No Different Than Peaches on a Tree
And when we have rotten people around us, their rot infects us.
I grew up with a lot of people around me. Unaware of how life works and how human relationships are very important for our mental health.
Some people dragged me down. I felt it, but I wasn't strong enough to make a change.
The solution was there. Removing the toxicity around me. That’s all I had to do.
I grew up helping my dad on the peach farm we had. There, I saw a lot of rotten peaches.
One thing stood out. When you see a rotten peach, the possible outcome is that the other peach that touches it will become rotten as well. Their contact makes the rot spread.
It wasn't until I started noticing things around me that I learned my lesson. I always try to compare things with nature, because nature knows more than we will ever learn.
We, the humans, are not different. When someone is in our life, we drain some of their characteristics. And if they are toxic, we drain some rot.
And I drained. I drained a lot of rot. I became narrow-minded, like some other “peaches” around me.
I tried to keep the people close to me that are healthy peaches. That would fix my rot and…
