The forbidden apples we eat every day…

So there’s this middle-aged young man in the prime of his life in some serene, pristine secluded resort-like location with a drop dead gorgeous woman….the 1st of her kind. As if having the perfect body dimensions, with the most blood curdling, knee wobbling vital statistics weren’t good enough, all she wore for clothes was fresh air!

So on one fine day, gorgeous Eve gets deceived (which we all do every day) and takes a bite of a certain forbidden fruit (y’all know how sometimes the forbidden stuff has the most appeal right?)…and she goes to Adam wearing just the air as clothes! Now, honestly speaking guys, seriously, if you were just lying somewhere, probably daydreaming about how caring and gifted your woman was, and how blessed you are to never worry about whether she’s playing you or not, and she just shows up in nothing but AIR!, walking seductively towards you in slow-mo, sensuously biting on a forbidden fruit-how much of a turn on would that have been?!!!!- It doesn’t matter if it was even cassava peels she was chewing on, you’re gonna wanna get some, especially when she’s staring straight into your eyes and whispering softly… “Take a bite hun, will ya.”

So that’s just what Adam did. He bit the fruit, took in a mouthful of it, and gulped down a chunk. He did that and humanity lost its place in the beautiful Garden of Eden along with all our divine privileges. By that, humanity was served with the perfect excuse for stuff like; why life is soo darn hard, why I raped the innocent girl next door, why I accepted bribes from crude business men. Ooooooh if only Adam hadn’t bitten that apple , I won’t have had to struggle with this uncontrollable weakness of mine, I won’t have known any hardships, there won’t have been so many different races and dialects, and no need for  Visa lotteries I never won, there won’t have been blah blaaah blaaaaaaahh!!! I think there’s no perfect time than now to tell you to GIVE ADAM A BREAK!!!!!       

So the guy screwed up ONCE! So what??!! You and I screw up every day. The way I see it, the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden that the human Adam ate, ei sorry- I meant  took a bite of- was not so much a fruit as it was a symbol of obedience to God, symbolic of all the ‘dos and donts’ God gives us.

So if every time you lied or blasphemed, committed adultery or fornicated, stole or did any of the things the 10 commandments say not to do (i.e. disobeying God = what Adam did), it was just like biting the Eden apple, tell me, how many apples would you have eaten just today alone? You see, the only thing Adam could have done wrong at the time was eat of that fruit, and he ate small pe. Today, we have wide varieties of ‘apples’ to choose from and they don’t even grow on trees anymore. They are in the music we listen to, the conversations we have, the lustful, covetous, hateful emotions we allow to grow in our hearts, the blasphemous words we utter, I mean seriously we’re doing some major ‘apple-biting’ every other hour, and ‘Eve’ doesn’t have to seductively ask us anymore, we just climb up the tree and keep plucking one after the other.

So if you look at it closely, it’s obvious that you and I would have done worse in the Garden of Eden than Adam did. We’lda probably heard God coming, and instead of going to hide behind some fig leaves and explaining that we just realized we were naked, we’ld have walked closer to God and asked Him…. “You sure you don’t want some of this good stuff?” Not seeing anything wrong with our disobedience, we’ld have even gone ahead to justify and rationalize our disobedience by saying something as silly as; “Yo G, don’t really see what your problem is. The god next door allows his humans to eat any fruit they like, so why are you being so tight about this? I mean, it’s just an apple you know??(or whatever fruit it was)” and after He eventually drives us out of Eden, we’ll be too quick to dial 911, report him to the Social Service people or file a law suit against Him.

So give Adam a break will ya?? The next time you are thinking of telling a lie, or  fu**ing the girl you haven’t married yet, or just plain sinning, look at it as you will a forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden. If you still ‘eat’, then you aint got nooo right what so ever to ‘dey Adam’s top’ like that.

So enough with the flimsy excuses, enough with ‘so this, so that’…if you’ve not noticed yet, I’ve used up the remaining ‘SOs’ left to mankind to start each paragraph of this peice, so let’s find another reason to be comfortable with the sh** we’ve got ourselves in, than blaming it on Adam and the one darn bite he took, or better still, let’s not get ourselves into any mess, at least lets tryyy. What do you say?