Cake is an interesting dessert. Bakers decorate cakes with whipped cream, frosting flowers, little objects, pictures, and messages. Regardless of the what's on the outside, when you cut into it, it's still just cake. Maybe chocolate, or lemon, or just plain white........but cake nonetheless. Sometimes that frosting is so thick on a piece of cake, that I will cut it off and toss it. The cake is really the good part.
I think humans are much like cakes. We decorate ourselves with appearances, education, work, money, and a plethora of belief systems. In the end, when we look at the inside, we are all imperfect humans, each of us flavored slightly differently. Sometimes the frosting of life is so thick that nobody has any idea what flavor the human cake actually is.
I recently had to come to terms with my own "cake-ness" and accept that I am what I am. The DNA won't change, no matter how hard I work or what belief systems I have implemented. It is not an easy idea to master after 50 years of frosting oneself.
lw
