Sell-By Date
Like food, all relationships have a sell-by date.Relationships started way back when the average life-expectancy would have been only 25-40 years of age.
So a lifetime commitment to a relationship wasn't quite so long, 10-15 years if you were very lucky.
Fast forward to the 21st century where people are living happily into their 90s, is it really reasonable to expect a lifetime commitment of 60+ years?
As with all things, there are exceptions in food too. Honey will last indefinitely but even that can crystallise and look a bit shabby. It takes a bit of hot stuff to bring it back again.
Some relationships also stand the test of time, but when they crystallise, somebody needs to be there,and willing, to apply that fix to make it gleam again.
Other foods you do keep forever, much past their sell-by date. But they grow dusty in the back of the cupboard as you don't want to get rid of them, but are not actively using them either. It is better to just clear out the cupboard and start afresh.
With all foods, it is better to enjoy them when they are fresh, and not try to hold on to them as they grow musty and dusty.
The sweetest food is often the one with the shortest lifespan. Think cupcakes
So, for 2018, maybe we should stop thinking longterm, and getting disappointed when they go sour, and just enjoy the sweetness of a relationship for however long it lasts.
One beautiful fresh cupcake will always be tastier than the dusty cans in the back of the cupboard.
Carpe diem.
Comments (128)
I totally accept your right to disagree with me
Make a conscious effort to be a cupcake in 2018
is hard to describe to you child but this loving is a bit like like old time irish marmalade once you has nothing else is same ..stuff that's lasts a long time has to be worked at
Like Dried Prunes,
Hard work and lasts long.
Plus, I've never seen your sausage to persuade me otherwise
But that was definitely one which was gathering dust in the cupboard and should have been thrown out a long time ago.
I am going to try the cupcake approach if I can. It doesn't come naturally to me, but we can all learn and change.
They take time to get over.
But it is still better to part than to stay in a relationship which has gone bad and at least one won't put in the effort.
People treat everything with the short minded insight that another can always be bought or obtained.
Sad that society has somehow assimilated and equated this ethos into relationships,but I guess that's progress
That is not to say we should withdraw from the quest.
After all the journey is all we have.
Maybe relationships were simply never supposed to last that long?
Maybe we are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
Maybe we should just accept that every day we spend with someone we like as a blessing, and not to be constantly looking down the road.
Maybe there's another parallel there. Those better with working around food problems are better at making relationships work too?
This blog works on so many levels!
But Maybe you are right.
Let us know how that works out?
I think Today could be your lucky Day!
Most fresh food such as veg I freeze so I can have just the amount I want at the time professor should I be doing this with relationships, keep a few in the freezer just in case
Is that what freezer bags are
Non, there are many Maybes in life
Z, I freeze a lot too. Maybe it is our way of keeping things fresh
Men...just need to grab whatever spoiled fruit that is left on the tree and be happy.
God, I must be explaining myself very badly.
I am simply trying to say that if we have someone, we should enjoy the present with them, not keep looking into the future
It is like a woman who believes herself to be unworthy of better, keeps getting into abusive relationships.
In fact, it is just the opposite...usually not getting enough.
I've mine tattooed on mine
And I am a longlife product
It is about enjoying the present with the person you are with, rather than over-planning for a future over which we have no control
pluck the day as it is ripe
Live today so tomorrow may be better
I agree having fun in the company of another is very important.