How is life like a bowl of cherries?

Answer 1

Some cherries are sweet and some are bitter but every cherry has a pit. When you reach one you throw it away and move on to another cherry. Life is like that. Each cherry is like a day in your life.

Answer 2

It's mainly good, but there are also some stones and stems and you might get a cherry with a worm in it or something. So that would be bad. But then you have the rest of the cherries that are good.

Plus life can stain. It's sweet with a hard center? Sometimes it's tart? It's red, except when it's yellow (unless it's those nasty green cherries in fruitcake.)

I don't know. Or do I?

Answer 3

It's just a song!
"Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Don't take it serious; it's too mysterious."
TigerLily is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill (another expression that needs analyzing).
-MM

Answer 4

Well..... If you pick them yourself, and sit down with a bowl to sort through them, you get to pick and choose the ones you want to eat.

Life is a metaphor full of enigmas!
or...
Life is like a sewer. What you put into it is very much like what you get out of it!

Answer 5

It is sweet, sometimes sour. Even a little bit tart at times.
If you overindulge you can get sick for a short while, but you always come back screaming for more.

Answer 6

There are sweet ones and sour ones.
There are good ones and bad ones.
And in the end there are only pits left..

Answer 7

It's sometimes sweet, sometimes sour. It's easy to eat, but sometimes there's a hard seed to get through. I don't know, I just made that up...

Answer 8

Life is Like a Bowl of Cherries. Discuss.


In discussing the idiom ‘life is like a bowl of cherries’ we must first identify what is meant by the terms ‘bowl’, ‘cherry’ and ‘life’. In this situation a bowl can be considered as a hemispherical vessel wider than it is deep, used for holding food or fluids, although it can also refer to the contents of such a vessel. A cherry is defined as a drupe of various colours and flavours, the fruit of the cherry tree, of the genus Prunus, such as the common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus). Life is more difficult to express. While it can mean the physiological processes that maintain an organism through growth and development, in this more philosophical context it is better described as the physical, mental and spiritual experiences that constitute existence. In order to discuss how the intricacies life can be related to an inert collection of fruit it is best to consider all the aspects of the complete bowl as individual factors, i.e. to consider the bowl separately to the cherries initially, before combining them to give more complex similarities to experiences of life.
Initially it may seem there is no correlation between life and cherries. They are no longer alive once in the bowl. They are inanimate, and do not exhibit physiological signs of life. But yet the cherries in the bowl undergo changes, such as ripening, through to eventual moulding. The stages of life could be likened to this – youth, middle and old age.
However on a purely superficial level this can be interpreted to imply that life is going well, and is successful at the present time. There is nothing apparently threatening in a bowl of cherries, and many people find cherries to be a pleasant fruit to eat. However there are many deeper insights into the similarities between life and a bowl of cherries.
For example, life is unique. The extent of personal individuality is also seen in the diversity of the cherries. Individuals have different tastes, backgrounds and physical appearances, just as there are different sizes, shapes and species of cherries, such as Morello or Tartarian. But life is not centred about the one individual with no interaction with other people (or cherries).
Family and friends are an important aspect of life. If no man is an island, then neither is a cherry. Each cherry may be taken as representative of the multitude of other people we experience throughout our lives, although some may be lost or new ones introduced life is composed of more than one individual (just as a bowl of cherries cannot refer to a single cherry) and more than one experience.
Yet it is our personal experiences that define life, and the cherries can represent these. Many people enjoy cherries, but some do not. This is observed in many situations throughout life. Some individuals may enjoy a particular situation where others would avoid it. For example some people adore roller-coasters, but others would hate having to ride one. It is therefore obvious that just as the pleasure inherent in a bowl of cherries is viewed differently by different people, so are the experiences we all undergo in life. We all learn something slightly different.
Where the collective bowl can show interpretations of experiences, an individual cherry can represent the physical properties and experiences. If they are maltreated cherries can be squashed. If we are maltreated we can be squashed, either through emotional or physical turmoil. And yet, just as the pip of the cherry survives all but the roughest handling of the flesh, so will the heart sustain through the toughest trials of life.
But the pip can symbolize more than the literal and metaphorical heart of a person. It represents the potential for new life that we all carry with us. Just as the pip contains everything needed to create a new cherry under the right circumstances, ova and sperm carry the potential for new life, which will also develop with these capabilities right from the start.
Up to now the bowl itself has not been discussed in detail. However the bowl can represent our own individual spheres of existence. Each bowl is different just as our collective experiences cannot be shared identically with another. The size of the bowl can be considered proportional to the extent of experiences, with deep bowls perhaps signifying a more profound understanding of the world.
The interactions of the bowl and the cherries together represent the structure of modern society. The cherries are not assigned to a particular type, so we can assume there are several types of cherries of different colours, as there are many races integrated into our society. But it is not only through the integration of many cherries that the social structure is represented, but also through their hierarchal arrangement.
The top cherry must be supported by the other cherries in order to maintain its position, as many world leaders are. But conversely, once in place the cherry on top is in a better position to oppress the cherries below, and keep them in place through the use of force (in this case gravity).


Figure 1 – The hierarchy of cherries


Even though there is the possibility of oppression among cherries a hierarchy is necessary. There must be organisation or the cherries, as a nation, will fall.
But perhaps we are concentrating too much on the philosophical meaning of the cherries, when we can take a much simpler view – the artist’s view. In art, ‘life’ is something that actually exists, regarded as a subject for an artist. It may just be that the idiom ‘Life is like a bowl of cherries’ is merely stating that something like a bowl of cherries may be used as a basis of an artistic work, whether in the traditional sense of the word art, or in the newer media. In fact there are some examples of the attempts of artists to express the bowl of cherries in art and music.
In 1931 Lew Brown and Ray Henderson wrote the song ‘Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries’. And the cherries have been expressed in various other artistic media.


Figure 2 - ‘Life is a bowl of cherries’ by Deb DeHaven




So the bowl of cherries may be an artistic expression of physical, mental or spiritual experiences, and thus of life. They can represent philosophical views about social hierarchy and individual experiences and interactions, but on a less philosophical level, this idiom can be used simply to signify that life is going well. Either way the cherries can be said to represent life through personal individuality, close social interactions, personal experiences, the sphere of knowledge in which we exist, and the wider structure inherent in society

Answer 9

you only end up with pits.

Answer 10

pits