Isn't it a wonder how everyone shows their best face to the world around them? For example, let us use a social media account. Or let us venture back a few more years to the nineties, and it's someone's hall in their home. Looking down those halls are the smiling faces permanently frozen in time on a photograph or the social media it's a digital picture. It is always the good times or "presumably good". We're supposed to believe that they were having the time of their lives when these pictures were taken. That everyone ought to be envious, and feel badly that there lives are so pathetic. But I know personally how the camera clicks, we get that perfect shot and life goes on... the life that looks more like the smashed waffle above than the nicely formed waffle on your plate! Yeah, if I had to post a picture of my life it would look a lot like that waffle dripping with uncooked batter sliming over the sides. The sludge of it all... I am still here and I look pretty good though, so don't worry about all that extra batter dripping off my face, it's nothing. Funny how the waffle looks like it comes out on the top all the time and the batter is secondary. The waffle looks pretty good if you peeled it away from all the drip. Raw flour and runny eggs mixed with milk. Hopefully-well mixed. I think that the reality of life is the batter oozing over the edges, that is life, pretty much. The real meat of it all is rather messy and not that pretty waffle we see on our plate. Somehow we muster up a good face in the end. Oh, come on, man! I am not that Eeyore-ish, but then again I suppose I am. It's like there are some moments in life that stand out and are pleasant. But getting to those moments is slimy and sticky and one may find themselves falling deeper into the mix of it. That is why I am firm on the point that nothing is truly good at least not when it comes to this life. I say that because I believe that only that which never ends is truly good. For example, if you woke up refreshed and stayed refreshed, that is truly good. A never-ending refreshing feeling. And if you ate a meal and never became hungry again or drank a glass of water and never sought to drink again. That would be truly good. Or if the sun rose in the sky and shown with all its splendor forever- that's nice! But one always has to go back to sleep and get more rest. And after food and drink has worn off, your stomach begins to growl hungrily and you're back to the kitchen with eyes full of ravenousness. The sun always sets and darkness comes the day is over, every day. The list of things that are seemingly good I believe I could prove are not so good after all as they all come to an end. That's reality. Nothing is actually good that ends and pretty much this life and everything about it will cease and be no more. One could come back and argue that there are a lot of seemingly good things, but you'll find that all of those end too. You can always ask my friend Gregory of Nyssa if you don't agree with me. Even though once they were at their pinnacle, and at one point looked at the time very good. But they too also stopped being a reality. Just like those pictures hanging in the hall back in the day and the social media reels of today which we are supposed to goggle over, it all ends in the drip, drip, drip of runny waffle mix. Life isn't a box of chocolates, Forest. I suppose perhaps one could argue me back and say what is the batter with that?
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