Recently I had one of the best desserts I have ever, ever tasted!! As I was day-dreaming about that particular dessert today, it occurred to me that desserts are much like convos.
You see, a truly great dessert is something that is rare to find, but once you find it, it’s something to be so excited about and savoured too! Maybe you’ve never even known that great desserts are out there (maybe you are a 7/11 chocolate-bar-type-of-dessert person) But once you step into the world of great desserts there is no turning back. It’s something that can be looked forward to for days, weeks, even months or years! It’s something that is well worth the wait once you sink your teeth into it. When the dessert is great, the distractions are few, you are one with the dessert, and you are IN THE MOMENT as you devour every single morsel of it. If it’s truly great dessert, it leaves you feeling satiated, it leaves you looking back fondly upon it, you can remember specific pieces and flavours and bites you took and exactly how you felt. You can describe and remember every little detail of it with profound accuracy. Just because you finished eating this great dessert, it doesn’t mean you forget about it, or that it even CAN be forgotten. It has forever changed your experience of the world.
As I said, truly great dessert is hard to come by... All of sudden other types of desserts don’t compare, (they may taste “cheap”, or may be too hard or too soft, too cold or too hot, too sweet or not sweet enough, consistency may feel off or not a match to your mood, it might be too small or too big, hard to identify or rather boring, maybe it tastes fake or looks so fake you don’t even want to bite into it, maybe eating it feels more like an effort than something to enjoy and savour, maybe it leaves you feeling gross, not satiated, disappointed...) you’ve simply become a dessert snob!! J And so....you find yourself thinking you’d rather not eat the crappy desserts anymore... though of course when you go to functions you sometimes must eat the dessert that’s served and you make every effort to enjoy it, even go as far as compliment it... but you now realize there is no turning back... you are now forever changed and determined...that whenever you have a choice in the matter, you’d rather eat great dessert than mediocre, forgettable dessert. And when a craving for dessert hits you out of the blue like a ton of bricks...you realize that if you must, you’d rather wait a few days extra to enjoy it, that you’d rather even invest a little more into it, than to waste your time on crappy 7/11 chocolate bars that simply masquerade as the dessert you're truly after... and leave much to be desired.
As I said, truly great dessert is hard to come by... All of sudden other types of desserts don’t compare, (they may taste “cheap”, or may be too hard or too soft, too cold or too hot, too sweet or not sweet enough, consistency may feel off or not a match to your mood, it might be too small or too big, hard to identify or rather boring, maybe it tastes fake or looks so fake you don’t even want to bite into it, maybe eating it feels more like an effort than something to enjoy and savour, maybe it leaves you feeling gross, not satiated, disappointed...) you’ve simply become a dessert snob!! J And so....you find yourself thinking you’d rather not eat the crappy desserts anymore... though of course when you go to functions you sometimes must eat the dessert that’s served and you make every effort to enjoy it, even go as far as compliment it... but you now realize there is no turning back... you are now forever changed and determined...that whenever you have a choice in the matter, you’d rather eat great dessert than mediocre, forgettable dessert. And when a craving for dessert hits you out of the blue like a ton of bricks...you realize that if you must, you’d rather wait a few days extra to enjoy it, that you’d rather even invest a little more into it, than to waste your time on crappy 7/11 chocolate bars that simply masquerade as the dessert you're truly after... and leave much to be desired.
And so... after experiencing a great dessert, as I did the other day...you learn to appreciate the intricacies of great desserts, the loving effort and care that goes into them ...and you wonder how you ever thought a Mars bar was so delish and satisfying!
You ask...so how do great desserts compare to great convos?? Re-read this entry and instead of “dessert(s)” use your imagination and think... “convo(s)”
tangible, delectable, cherishable, savour it as long as you can
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