Emily Explains how Apples Are Like People

I started cutting up an apple the other day. I had just cut of a sliver when I saw

brown.

It was ugly and mushy and I wouldn't have suspected a thing from the gorgeous red color of the outside.

Kind of like people.

People can have fancy things and expensive clothes. They can try to cover up their flaws.

But it won't work.

No one can fully cover them up.

I'm a person who comes by my flaws openly.

I'm vocal about the things I don't like. When I'm ticked off, watch out. I can have an attitude and 'need to have the last word' and I like to be right (I mean, who doesn't?).

But my family knows these flaws.

My friends do too.

You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve
And I have always buried them deep beneath the ground 

I was thinking about this song, Flaws, by Bastille. It made me think of that rotten apple I cut into, expecting something crisp and juicy, only finding it's flaws.

With people, I think you need to focus on the good while still acknowledging the flaws, because flaws make us who we are. They make us perfectly imperfect. (After all, how awful would t be if we were all nice and sweet? Nothing would ever happen).