In your basket

We go through life picking things up.  Many of us keep the wrong things.  Some of us that pick up the wrong things know it and either keep those things separate from the good things we pick up and don't carry them around with us.  Some people keep the rotten things with the good things together, poisoning and polluting everything that is good.

You do not put or keep rotten food in with the good food.  The longer it stays in the basket with good food, the more the good food rots. The more it becomes unappetizing to you. So you throw it all out. This analogy is not only true about food but about emotions too.

Relationships no matter how causal or serious are like this too. If you keep the little irritating things with you that bothers you about a person or a relationship, the more they spoil you and the relationship.  Don't keep thinking about those things or rehashing them over and over.  Let them go, put them away someplace else where they can not affect you and your relationship.

If you don't, you will start looking for another basket that you can not see the rotten apples below the surface.  I have someone that was so important to me I would have died for them.  Unknown to me that person I recently found out kept the rotten apples in with the good healthy ones.  Placed them in the family basket and now, well you can understand.  For them, the rotten apples they carried around spoiled the whole batch.

Do not put the rotten apples you find in the same basket as the good apples.  Over time of keeping the apples separate you will find that the beauty and nourishment of the good apples will out way the size of the rotten basket. To the point the rotten basket never gets picked up and used again.

Please do not mix your apples and let the whole batch be destroyed.

A fresh start is only fantasy for those that can not keep their apples separate.