If you were to wholeheartedly appreciate a rare and exotic fruit, you must be prepared to eat the fruit (at its optimum ripeness of course) to fully appreciate all its qualities. However, in eating the fruit, you are at the same time putting an end to the existence of it, once eaten you will no longer have it in physical terms. However, your sense of appreciation of the fruit is greater because of it. If you try to cling to the fruit, if you avoid eating it, it cannot be yours anyway, because the natural way of life will see the fruit deteriorate...

Indeed, an integral part of the process of appreciation, for it is an ongoing process, is to appreciate and to let go, allowing the natural processes of change to alter the nature of things and to be at-peace with this...