a better response to a very pertinent question

☆ cran·berry (kran′ber′ē, -bər ē)
noun pl. cranberries -·ries


1.a firm, sour, edible, red berry, the fruit of any of several trailing evergreen shrubs (genus Vaccinium) of the heath family


2.The berries of this plant, used in sauces, jellies, relishes, and beverages.


3.Any of several similar or related plants, especially Vaccinium oxycoccos.
 
Origin: < Du kranebere, LowG kraanbere, lit., crane berry: name used by early settlers in U.S., replacing earlier Brit fen berry

Life is like a bowl of cranberries. Why you may ask? Well I have a well thought out answer to your pondering. The bowl of which supports the cranberries is circular, which represents many things in our world, such as the sun and the earth, which serve to support and protect our lives, much as the bowl holds and supports the cranberries in its structure. The cranberries located universally throughout the bowl serve to represent human life, red in color like the blood that runs in our veins and full of the healthy nutrients that we need to support our life here on earth. Each cranberry is touching another cranberry within the bowl, which shows how our human lives are all touching, all interconnected, six degrees of separation and all. They have come from fields of an undetermined location, (assuming that one has thrown away the bag of origin) much the same as the precise origin of life on earth is unknown. Hands descend on the cranberries, removing some from the collective group. One may compare this to fate, or god, or a hungry person eating cranberries. Herein, we see life and death demonstrated within the bowl. Finally, the god/fate/hungry person's hand that has assumedly moved the cranberries from the bowl to their mouth is now either enjoying their bitter sweet taste or finding themselves quite revolted with it. This shows how not all people like life, or, even more accurately demonstrates how some people are cannibals and like it where others are not.