Pondering the Meaning of a Pitted Cherry
-An Introduction
A cherry is innocence, and a plucked cherry is the loss of that same innocence, in neither a positive or negative connotation. To be a pitted cherry is to succumb to societal standards that do not meet your own within. To be considered and expected to be beautiful and perfect on the outside, whether or not what is inside is liked or accepted. The pit of a cherry is ugly and when crushed, it contains 0.17 grams of lethal cyanide. Two cherry pits crushed up can lead to the death of a human being, yet that very pit is the beginning of its life. The pit of a cherry is its essence, and without it, there would be no cherry at all. No innocence, no loss of that, and no corruption. Society shuns that part- the core, the thing that is the very core of what a cherry is- yet also praises the outer beauty and exterior. When your pit is taken from you, you are no longer you. Quite literally, when you are pitted, you are gutted of your very essence; sometimes the pitting is at the fault of someone close, and sometimes, one may even pit themselves.
And in the modern sense, two cherries can represent lesbianism.
"different things can be sad, it's not all war."
Saoirse Ronan (Lady Bird)
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(OLD VERSION) Pitted Cherries
RomanceDella Valora, a seventeen year old, closeted lesbian with homophobic parents, is in love with another girl, Alex Carr, who has a boyfriend. Alex Carr, another seventeen year old, closeted lesbian, is struggling to find herself while feeling trapped...
