But people, as Alan had once reflected to Greenie, were not at all like recipes. You could have all the right ingredients, in all the right amounts, and still there were no guarantees. Or perhaps they were like recipes, he pondered now, and the key to success was in finding the ingredients you had to remove, the components that turned all the others bitter, excessively salty, difficult to swallow; even too jarringly sweet. He had seen Greenie clarify butter, wash rice, devein shrimp, and meticulously snip the talons from artichoke leaves. .Julia Glass
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That's the thing about people, they're like recipes. You can have all of the right ingredients, in all of the right amounts, and still people may not taste good. Or perhaps people are like recipes; we put in all of the right ingredients, but we must also take away the wrong things. For instance, making a pie is a perfect example. If you add sugar, your pie will taste sweet and sickeningly bitter.
If you add salt, your pie will taste salty and sour. If you add butter, your pie will become greasy and cloying. If you add more of any ingredient than is needed, then your pie will be difficult to eat and overindulge in itself. A cake is similar to a pie that way: if you add too much flour or too much baking powder or if you add more egg than is required then your cake will be dry and tough and hard to get through. So too does it go for people: if you add more love than is required for another person's happiness then your love turns bitter and turns sour.
It becomes so unendurable to taste that it would be better to remove it from the recipe altogether rather than to try to force it down someone's throat in order for them to enjoy it. But people are sweet when they are in their natural habitat: when they are in a relationship with someone who loves them back unconditionally with no expectation of anything in return. That's why everyone wants to find that person in their life: because when they do they will know what true love feels like - when there is no expectations or conditions attached to their feelings for another person they can enjoy their relationship without guilt or regret or feeling obligated to ever leave anyone again - when people don't feel obligated they can simply enjoy their partner for who they are without feeling burdened by having them around anymore - when people who don't feel obligated don't have a reason not to stay around - when people don't have a reason not to stay around they can keep going back again and again without hope of anything else being possible - when people keep going back again and again they don't have to worry about what might happen next - when there is nothing left on the table but love then everything else falls into place perfectly after everything else has been tried and failed so many times before - this is what makes something truly great. This is what makes something truly wonderful.
This is what makes something truly worthwhile. This is
Source: The Whole World Over
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