No. I am not trying to come up with bizarre recipes. I am attempting my hand at analogy. Although, I just realized that has the word anal in it and gross...so let's see. I am going to attempt to describe my feelings with things that are representative of the situation that I am trying to express to you. I.E. Analogy with out the anal.
I am 5 foot round and I am often called upon to be around women that are 6 foot fabulous. So, the other day when yet once again I was called to be in the presence of these giraffes with cell phones I got a mental picture and then said mental picture taught me a lesson that I needed to hear.
I am a plum. I am somewhat round, short and fleshy. I am sweet. I am not familiar with these ladies that I was in front of but they were not warm right off the bat so my mental picture of them was a celery stalk. Tall, healthy and fresh. I started my mental picture thinking that as a plum more people would be drawn to me as I am sweet and juicy, but the more I thought about it celery has it's good qualities too and maybe if you aren't in the mood for something sweet or you needed the crunch of a celery stalk you would not necessarily turn to a plum, and that is ok.
In case you have lost me my point is this, you are going to come into contact with people who are different than you. They may be hateful. They may be rude. The thing is they may be nice and sweet and wonderful and you are basing your assumption off of what you "think" the person is thinking. You may be 100% correct, they just might be a ....well, see how we have come full circle?...I'll go with jerk as to not offend but since we are started with ANALogy I thought it only right to mention how we have come full circle.
Think of this world as a great big bowl of produce. Somethings blend well together and some don't that doesn't make either one of those things bad it just makes them different and that is totally ok. It shows your own character if you can handle being around a prickly pear every once in awhile or if every time you see a prickly pear you grab a friend close to you and say things like look at that prickly pear why is he so prickly?
Branch out people. Step outside your comfort zone. Do not assume the worst in people. You just might be pleasantly surprised and find a new flavor of a friend that will be the perfect balance to your fruit salad of a life.
Did I lose you?
