<p>I agree with mousegray, that when there are happy examples, the apples, though they do roll away for a while, tend to come back. They are their own variety of apples, but they tend resemble the tree(s).</p>
<p>See the tree in the apples we are–some closer to the tree than others. As trees, our apples are still figuring out how far the will roll & how many bruises they are willing to hazard. They are hoping to roll back physically if they can create jobs with living wages.</p>
<p>Idk, It seems to be an orange and not an apple anymore.</p>
<p>Is the original poster’s statement at all related to “What goes around, comes around”? I see a lot of that with apples falling as well!</p>
<p>Which tree are we talking about? If it is my mom, who is mentally ill, I hope the apple fell far from the tree. If it is my grandparents, who raised me from the time I was 8 years old, I hope it didn’t roll too far!</p>
<p>I’m hoping that I fell off the tree with such force that I was propelled into orbit about the Earth. :)</p>
<p>I am not a plant.</p>
<p>Falling off the tree? Heck, half of them are still hanging there years later!</p>
<p>Which may or may not be a bad thing.</p>
<p>This quote always makes me laugh. It’s what my optometrist said the first time I brought Happykid in to have her vision checked.</p>
<p>While I’ve heard this expression used in a fond way, I’ve never heard it used to refer to a strongly positive trait–only negative or at best quirky. So I will always protest and say NO–not true!</p>
<p>The honest truth is that since I haven’t completely figured out what kind of tree I am, I can’t comment on whether the apples are appropriate fruit to have come from it or not, lol.</p>
<p>yes and no</p>
<p>There are so many ways our kids have adopted our values and life style and each of them has clearly adopted some of our personal traits and preferences both good and bad.</p>
<p>But each is so clearly their own unique person and seeking out how they should move away from our tree because of who they are.</p>
<p>Seeing our kids grow into adults (and we’re still on the path) has been the most amazing experience … both watching them grow into themselves … and how it forced us to grow in ways we never knew we needed to grow before we had kids!</p>
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<p>Do I hear a big AMEN!?!?</p>
<p>One apple is very similar to the tree. The other apple has done everything possible to be different.</p>
<p>After crabbing at my kid for several years to get his homework done early and to stop waiting until The.Very.Last.Minute, I started grad school, and what do I do? Turn in my papers with all of 10, or 2, minutes to spare.</p>
<p>^^^crab-apple tree^^^ (“crabbing at my kid…”)</p>
<p>mafool, the word choice was deliberate!! And the kid is at least as crabby!!!</p>