They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

 They say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

But sometimes it does.
Sometimes it rolls miles away.
Sometimes it plants itself in new soil and grows something completely different.

One bad apple doesn’t have to spoil the bunch.
Sometimes it wakes the rest of them up.
Sometimes it shows them exactly what not to be.

Your past doesn’t define you.
Your roots don’t control you.
Your future is not written in stone.

You get to choose.
You get to be the one who breaks the cycle.
You get to be better.
And that choice?
It’s everything.