Cake and Eat It Too
Cake.
I don't know of many who do not cherish a delicious morsel of cake. There are countless varieties, but most of us have a favorite. Mine is white cake with chocolate frosting and with those little, colorful, crunchy candy dot sprinkles on top.
I think it is safe to say that we have all have heard the idiom "you can't have your cake and eat it too". Simply, it has to do with deserving it. There is always going to exist a "trade-off". One cannot expect something, or get something that they have not earned, or that they are not truly meant to have. You can't want that perfect job, get it, and then expect that just because it's summer, you should be entitled to time off. No. You have to earn it. You are not entitled to it. Or perhaps because a person wears expensive Italian suits they think based on this that should command respect based on this fact alone. No.
You cannot have the best of both worlds, nor have it both ways.
In regard to the cake reference, once eaten, it's impossible to still have it there in front of you to be eaten again it's no longer a possibility, for it does not exist.
It's the same thing when this is applied to relationships. Once closure is put on a relationship and both parties have the decided it's in their best interest to part ways, it's hard to simply continue on with previous the motions that existed during the time of the relationship. This is the struggle...when you want things to be the same, but not. Hence the "cake and eat it too" scenario.
As previously stated, this simply can't be; you can't have your cake and eat it too. Make a hard decision and stand by it. Eat the damned cake and relish every bite, or accept that it just wasn't your cake to eat. The whole thing leaves me rather indecisive.
I sometimes miss eating my white cake with chocolate frosting with those little, colorful, crunchy candy dot sprinkles on top, but once it's gone, it's gone. Only crumbs are left.
cdl
I don't know of many who do not cherish a delicious morsel of cake. There are countless varieties, but most of us have a favorite. Mine is white cake with chocolate frosting and with those little, colorful, crunchy candy dot sprinkles on top.
I think it is safe to say that we have all have heard the idiom "you can't have your cake and eat it too". Simply, it has to do with deserving it. There is always going to exist a "trade-off". One cannot expect something, or get something that they have not earned, or that they are not truly meant to have. You can't want that perfect job, get it, and then expect that just because it's summer, you should be entitled to time off. No. You have to earn it. You are not entitled to it. Or perhaps because a person wears expensive Italian suits they think based on this that should command respect based on this fact alone. No.
You cannot have the best of both worlds, nor have it both ways.
In regard to the cake reference, once eaten, it's impossible to still have it there in front of you to be eaten again it's no longer a possibility, for it does not exist.
It's the same thing when this is applied to relationships. Once closure is put on a relationship and both parties have the decided it's in their best interest to part ways, it's hard to simply continue on with previous the motions that existed during the time of the relationship. This is the struggle...when you want things to be the same, but not. Hence the "cake and eat it too" scenario.
As previously stated, this simply can't be; you can't have your cake and eat it too. Make a hard decision and stand by it. Eat the damned cake and relish every bite, or accept that it just wasn't your cake to eat. The whole thing leaves me rather indecisive.
I sometimes miss eating my white cake with chocolate frosting with those little, colorful, crunchy candy dot sprinkles on top, but once it's gone, it's gone. Only crumbs are left.
cdl
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