Baking Love

Love.

I can't explain it.

It's not happiness, and it's definitely not sadness.

It's not even really an emotion.

It's more of a feeling.

Now of course at this point you may stop me and say, well hold up mister, what's the difference between an emotion and a feeling?

Is falling an emotion?

No

Do you know the feeling of falling?

Yes

When you mix a bunch of emotions together, you get what feeling the recipe called for, as long as you do it right.

For example... Falling 

1 cup anticipation

3 cups fear

2 cups gravity sensation

2 cups exhilaration

Note: if you want a more enjoyable experience, substitute half of the fear with safety AKA parachutes, bungee cords

But love.... Love is the most complicated intricate recipe you've ever come across. It takes time to mix everything together and even longer for it to fully mature. In the end, it is the most delicious thing you've ever made, and even the most professional connoisseurs of love cannot taste every detail put into it.

And don't forget, even the most perfectly baked love has little bad uncooked bits in, that usually make you realize how good the rest of it is.

Sometimes people accidentally cook lust instead of love and it tastes even better than love does at first, because there are hardly any bad bits and it is the only time they've ever tasted it, but it goes bad after a couple of months.

But if you cook love just right it'll last forever. And not only that, but the longer it's around, the better it'll taste. Sometimes, when you get closer to the end, a lot of the bad bits are gone, and other times they stick around forever. 

Sometimes people get a really bad bit and they forget how good the rest of it tasted and they give up on it. And throw it away, and they don't realize that they may have just thrown away one of the best loves ever cooked up, but it just had one really bad bit in it.

There are lots of different recipes for love, but it's only because people have never thought of new names for the feelings. Just like cakes. there are loads of different kinds of cakes and they all taste different for different occasions and some of them are widely different, but we still call it cake just the same.

Loving burgers is different than loving puppies (for most people). And loving a spouse is different than loving a child. They are all similar recipes but they are all different. Sometimes they seem close so people just group them all together as love. But they all know it's not the same.

Unfortunately there are people that never get to taste the really yummy baked love, but they get a similar taste from other places. Like cats. So they get like ten cats. But one super delicious cake is way better than ten okay cakes, and they don't know that, or they disagree, or they simply cannot find the ingredients to make a good ones.

So experiment. Do whatever you can to figure out your perfect recipe and make love.