i was planing on publishing part 2- of geocaching 2008 tonight. however i took a brake on that story so that i could touch base on something else.
imagine that you and all your friends are cookie dough. if you want to substitute cookie dough for brownie mix that's ok. my point is, we are all in this big bowl together. and one day we will be cookies. after the bowl we will be placed on the baking sheet and then thrown in the oven. this is not a bad thing, in fact its good! it gives us all direction. i am not saying we are all going to grow up to be cookies. we can grow up to be whatever we want. but we are all still part of this process. its one of growing up and learning who we are. i feel like i have been blessed with a understanding of who i am and who i want to be. however some times not all the cookie dough will make it to the oven. i have recently noticed that a certain circle of my friends seem to be stuck to the bowl. they party almost every night. and most of them don't seem to have much of a direction. the more i bake the more distance grows between us. some of my friends in this circle have accused me of being distant and selfish. its easy to understand, they are right. i have been selfish. i think that there is a line, theres a point were i cant be a good friend to someone who is still stuck to the bowl. i want to help, i want to be a good friend. but they don't know they are stuck. they cant see that were they are is not permanent. you cant stay in one place your hole life, at some point you will need to grow up and be a cookie.
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Off of your own metaphor, and to quote your own point, not all of us grow up to be cookies. We may all be baked in the same oven, but the experience of the cook is what guides and determines how we turn out.
Some call it fate, some call it free will. The tray may be the only place that some people have grown and to stray from that doesn't mean they are holding themselves back but rather that they are comfortable with how they are turning out. There is key difference that needs to be noted in what it means to be fulfilling your potential and settling with what gets you through the day.
Everyone is selfish, we have to be if we are going to chase those frequently moving dreams of ours. And like you I feel blessed because I know what my ultimate goal is and how I want my life to eventually end up. What I don't know, what I am spending my time being baked to, is the experience that leads up to the finished dish, so to speak.
Right now I am just pre-heatin' the oven and I don't know where the chef is. But where I am eventually baked, that will make the difference between knowing if I am stuck or knowing if I was pulled out too soon.
Cookies are good, but I'm not sure if I want to eat another cookie ever again after reading this post. I don't want to eat my friends. :[
To kind of piggyback on what Karp said, changing is part of growing up, and some people change in more drastic ways than others. It's not a bad thing that you don't have much in common anymore with your partying friends. It's about what makes you happy, and their lifestyles make them as happy (hopefully) as your lifestyle does. I think it's a good thing that you're branching out - life would be boring with just one group of friends. Not that you should stop hanging out with them, just that now you have an opportunity to meet people who have the same interests as you. :)
what about people who are allergic to cookie dough and brownie mix?
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