Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Entenmann's Cookies
It seems pretty obvious. Entenmann's chocolate chip cookies are the perfect cookies. Better than home made, better than that crap you get at the mall for $3 each. So good.. mmm.
Family hibernation
Ask anyone and they will agree. As you grow older you realize that you become more an more like your parents. Usually it's one or the other, Mom or Dad. It's just a given, right? Everyone agrees that you hit a certain age and you realize that you are not so different from that man or woman you swore you would never be like.
Like most great thought, I came up with a new theory while showering today. Maybe this is obvious, but to me it seemed ground breaking:
From the day we are born, we are very similar to our parents, and while it seems to us at the time that we are so different from the enforcers who won't let you eat ice cream for breakfast or spend the week at your buddies house while his parents are in England, the fact is that our parents are not being themselves. While we're complaining about who they are and how they act, we're interacting with people who are trying to shape you into the best person you can be, by not being your friend... by being a parent. And that's what we need... right?
So by the time we graduate from college, and get a job in the real world.. and hopefully relinquish our parents from the huge emotional/physical/ financial burden .. they can finally get back to being themselves. After all they can't punish you any more, so what good is trying to continue shaping you... you're shaped, done... and like it or not they love you as much as that crappy clay blob that you fired up in the kiln in 3rd grade and gave to them for their anniversary. So now they are being themselves again.. someone you've never seen before.. but hey.. you get along with them great now [of course many more psychological complexities weigh in here].. and you realize that you aren't that different.
You didn't become more like your mom or dad.. they finally showed you their true personalities. And just as you become so happy with the new equilibrium, you crank out a little you jr. .. and now it's time for you to put your true personality in hibernation.
Like most great thought, I came up with a new theory while showering today. Maybe this is obvious, but to me it seemed ground breaking:
From the day we are born, we are very similar to our parents, and while it seems to us at the time that we are so different from the enforcers who won't let you eat ice cream for breakfast or spend the week at your buddies house while his parents are in England, the fact is that our parents are not being themselves. While we're complaining about who they are and how they act, we're interacting with people who are trying to shape you into the best person you can be, by not being your friend... by being a parent. And that's what we need... right?
So by the time we graduate from college, and get a job in the real world.. and hopefully relinquish our parents from the huge emotional/physical/ financial burden .. they can finally get back to being themselves. After all they can't punish you any more, so what good is trying to continue shaping you... you're shaped, done... and like it or not they love you as much as that crappy clay blob that you fired up in the kiln in 3rd grade and gave to them for their anniversary. So now they are being themselves again.. someone you've never seen before.. but hey.. you get along with them great now [of course many more psychological complexities weigh in here].. and you realize that you aren't that different.
You didn't become more like your mom or dad.. they finally showed you their true personalities. And just as you become so happy with the new equilibrium, you crank out a little you jr. .. and now it's time for you to put your true personality in hibernation.
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