Have you ever picked blackberries? These delicious, sweet, juicy berries grow wild around much of the United States. Sometimes the thickets are enormous... eight or ten feet high and excessively deep—too deep to traverse. They grow best in humid climates, and the fruit is ripe during the summer when the weather is oppressive. Dressing for the occasion requires donning jeans, boots, and long-sleeve shirts because masses of small razor-sharp thorns shroud the stems on the bushes. Despite the attire, whenever you go blackberry picking it is inevitable to come out looking as though you have just brawled with ten neighborhood cats; you are likely to have tics from the woods, snakes, poisonous spiders, and wasps are potential dangers as well. Are you getting the impression that blackberry picking is not a lot of fun?
While it is possible to pick baskets full of perfectly edible berries from the edges of the bushes in relative safety, the real prize lies deep, in the conglomeration of prickly darts. Within the dark womb of the blackberry's vines hangs a beautiful bauble among the bristles; It's bubbly deep purple surface glistens with nectar that begs to ooze from it's shining oh-so-tender periphery. Jumble it not in a crowd of other adequate berries to mingle with and enhance their juices. It is too perfect to become anonymously glossed over with sugary glaze and gulped in an informal chomp. Should you risk almost certain injury to claim the juiciest, sweetest, plumpest berry? Yes! Why? Why go through so much trouble and ignore hundreds of safely-picked satisfactory berries, in order to take the chance to pick a single, near-perfect fruit which will never grace the inside of a cobbler--never adorn the recesses of a pie? You must pick this berry because it is no mediocre morsel. Savor it, as it deserves; roll it around on your tongue so you can feel its warmth within your mouth just before biting down to release all of the dewy exquisite essence in a luxurious rush of flavor that envelops your senses with ecstasy. Mmmm... Euphoria for the taste buds!
I believe in miracles! I believe in true love. I believe the many people walk through their lives and never experience anything magical, not because it isn't there, but because they don't know or appreciate it when they see it--because they are not willing to take chances to achieve something better than they have. I believe that sometimes we have to push the limits of our belief and our comfort in order to find the extraordinary... sometimes we must venture deep into the prickly thicket and brave dangerous territory to find the gold-gilded sanctuary the Universe willingly hands us. The best things in life are never really easy... if they were, that prize blackberry would not stand as such a treasure.
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