The Still LIfe

I want to look for something to sketch and draw as a still life, but when I see still life drawings of others they are all set up "nice nice" and
So pathetic with the bent over wheat all broken down and spilling out; apples tumbling over the edge of the bowl, and the paper. Why do they try
to paint up what they think looks so natural, but really is so staged? Is that what a "still life" is, some staged portraight with everything art is supposed to represent,
made up to go into the work? Just like Ozzy and Harriot on TV, making our life's families into its fake reality show.