Oh Eve, I’m sure you’ve been asked this question a million times. Scratch that, 107 billion times; for I am sure every human to inhabit the planet has asked this at some time or other, but why did you condemn us all to misery with a flick of your jaw? I find it difficult to believe that out of the seven deadly sins, gluttony was all of our’s demise. You could’ve scoffed at the apple with pride, angrily smashed the apple down, enviously snatched the apple from the snake, been too lazy to eat the apple, or greedily tried planting your own apple tree; but no, you decided to sink your teeth into the end of paradise.

Was this all fabricated to make us feel like humans are to blame for the negativity in the world? I don’t believe you were so selfish, Eve. I believe someone stretched the truth, and that apple is gone now because someone else decided to eat it. I don’t believe you did. Maybe you set your eyes on it and then were well on your way.

But damn it, Eve, you did bite the apple and I have you to blame for my lows! You and only you, I can’t believe you would do that to all of your descendants. I’ve met many selfish mothers, but you take the cake, Eve – all because you bit the apple.

What’s even the point, Eve? Why focus on swimming in a sea of benevolence with malevolence hovering over the surface. We make light of our miserable situations with clichés like “What goes up must come down” or “It’s all uphill from now”. Well guess what? I’ve been uphill. It hurts your thighs, gives you shortness of breath, and leaves you sore the next day.

I don’t understand why you did it. Maybe you were hungry? No good fish were in the river that day… Can you help me understand why we must suffer so? Maybe come into my dreams tonight and give me a visual of the events. I would understand if the snake had Adam in a choke hold and forced you to bite the apple for the sake of Adam’s life. I just want to know the pain I see, feel, and hear is merited. I want to know why I have to experience your sin with most of my senses.

Eve, I understand nothing I say or do is going to change the fact that you ate the apple. Sometimes things happen without reason or there is reason beyond what we are able to comprehend. Perhaps we must each live in the universe for 100 years to garner the true significance of paradise when we get to it.

Come to think of it, I’m ok with there being no paradise. If there was and you did bite the apple, Eve, then I thank you, because you have taught us to make our own earthly paradise. Without my father’s disappointment I wouldn’t appreciate the significance of his pride. Without my mother’s worry I wouldn’t garner the strength of her love. Without my love’s frown I wouldn’t be blinded by the radiance of his smile. Without my dog’s bite I wouldn’t gather the love of her licks. And to put it simply without rain there’d be no rainbows.