Chapter 6 treats a human life as fruit rather than mere foliage. What matters is whether a person ripens through pressure, continuity, and adverse seasons into something that can reproduce life beyond itself.
That makes hardship part of formation, not an interruption of it. The fruit that survives wind, hunger, and time carries the value of the whole tree because it has remained connected through every season.
The metaphor is demanding because it shifts the question from outward belonging to inward maturity. A life is not evaluated by how blossom-like it looked in spring, but by what remained when harvest came.