I’m watching the food network and learning about goat milk. I don’t care. I want a cupcake. These would be pretty in the snow, too.
There are a couple of good things about cupcakes, and they happen to be mutually exclusive. Venn diagram it: Good things about cupcakes. You’d have separate circles.
The first circle: You can be selfish with your cupcake. A cupcake is a wee tiny cake. It’s for one person only. There is no requirement to share. You have more pressure to share a cookie. If you share your cupcake, you’re super nice. But no one expects you to share. It’s a good thing. Your cupcake. Your own cupcake.
The second circle: Sharing cupcakes is one of the happiest things ever! Have you ever ordered a bunch of Kim and Jake’s cupcakes and taken them to a party? If not, put it on your “to do” list. Preferably your “to do soon” list. Because handing out cupcakes feels great. It creates a happy heart. Imagine yourself, passing out a tiny bit of goodness, to each one of your friends (and you have a lot of friends). You love them and want them to have a cupcake. They love you because you have just given them a cupcake.
Here's where it gets complicated. Once you transfer a cupcake from your hand to the hand of your friend, the cupcake moves from “circle two” to “circle one” of the Venn diagram. All of a sudden your friend has this wonderful, for-my-consumption-only cupcake and feels no pressure to share. Your friend doesn't have to protect it. He most certainly doesn't have to eat it all in one bite. Are these good things, you ask?
Yes, these are good things. Sized for one. No guarding necessary. The option of one bite or many bites. These things create the perfect food gift. You have given the perfect food gift. Just be careful...make sure you save one for yourself!
So there is the cupcake Venn diagram. Right now, I’d like to share 4 cupcakes with myself. Overlapping circles, indeed. But it’s snowing. And 4 cupcakes might just help me make it through the night.
