Wednesday, February 2, 2011

orange

Tomorrow is Chinese New Year and we have been eating oranges like mad. As I peel the skin slowly, taking in the smell and texture I feel a sense of amazement.

Looking at the sacs containing the juicy pulps, all are presented to us to beautifully. The 'see-through wrappers' are not only beautiful and delicate, they do a good job of preserving the freshness of the fruit. Yet, it easily tears once bitten to make eating easy.

The seeds are not that welcomed yet they carry a powerful reminder, that the fruit once originated from such small, humble beginning. Don't the story coincide with how we got here in the first place?

More amazingly, the pulps itself are like small wrappers, its skin so thin that its almost not there.

Time and time again I bit into this fruit, and occasionally, I stop and think, how precious!

And that's what life is all about.

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