We
are a bunch of bananas that are ripe, yellow and ready to mingle. However
unique you think you are, we are all the same fruit.
A banana. They usually come in a bunch. No one comes to a fruit stall and asks to buy one
banana. Being in a bunch is safer.
Most importantly, we wouldn’t be left out
because when a flood comes, a bunch of bananas have higher chances of staying
afloat.
We get the idea of conformity from young, and are afraid of what lies beyond our bunch.
We get the idea of conformity from young, and are afraid of what lies beyond our bunch.
If the banana is left out, it will have two
options in life. Either it's ready to be eaten, or it's rotten to the
core and should be thrown away. That is not the case.
Everyone likes fruit. Bananas are natural mood
boosters, they make people happy with their chemicals inside (tryptophan). That lonely banana must be too happy because it ripens earlier
than the rest of the bunch.
For the less ‘happy chemicals’ a banana has, the
less tasty the banana, thus less likely it will be able to break free from the
bunch.
Still,
no one wants to buy a single happy banana. It’s just more worthwhile to get a whole
bunch of them. They charge them cheaper, right?
Soon,
that single banana will become overripe. It can let itself rot from the inside
out from the excessive chemicals of happiness that it has no one to share with.
That
banana can choose to live its life thinking that it is useless and unwanted, or
it can put up a sign, and get ready to live out its dreams.
