Care for a cookie?

I presume one has heard of Einstein’s “Two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity. … and I am not sure about the universe”.

If one has studied Economics, one might know that human desires are infinite, but the possibilities for fulfilling them are finite and scarce.

When I was growing up, the environmental issues like water, soil and air pollution, catastrophes, earthquakes were getting more and more real threatening; an experiment has been performed. Experiment, explaining the slow rising of the crisis situation and how we react on the way through. It is about the frog, which is put alive in a pot with little water and on the hotplate. The hotplate is turned on gentle fire. The water is getting warmer. At the beginning, the frog feels good with the new warmth, but soon the water is getting warmer and at certain moment it is even hot and unpleasant. The frog moves throughout the bottom of the pot, but the temperature rises, everywhere in the pot is getting hotter and hotter...Frog’s cozy little pot turns out to be a trap. In the happy ending the frog jumps out of the pot and saves its life. In the non-happy ending, the frog stays inside the pot and dies.

One might have guessed right – we, the humans from Earth, the descendants of Terrah, are the sweet green frog. As one might have read one of my previous posts from Facebook – about Zwarte Pete, the frog is sometimes a handsome witty and wealthy of knowledge and abilities man, a prince, who helped the princess in getting something she calls hers. So far so good, but he is a frog to her, hence she doesn’t want to keep her part of the bargain – to marry him in return – and turned him into animal. Believe it or not – it is possible with a little magic.

There is a parable of Peter Dunov about a man, who married a young, beautiful and gentle woman. And they moved on a distant place to live happily ever after. The happiness didn’t last long. It turned out that the young beautiful woman is an old, evil and ugly witch, but she was very powerful in magic, so she deluded everyone and she turned him into any animal she wanted to. She used to hit him and curse him in animal form. One day she turned him into a dog and wanted to beat him again, but the man somehow managed to escape. The man went to the nearest human town and although he knew he is in a dog body now, he hoped to find food and care of a good human, and so, he started following humans. No one cared about him. One day he followed a woman. She was a witch too, but a good one. She saw, that she has been followed not by a dog, but by a human in dog’s body, so she took him home. She fed and cleaned him. She sprayed few drops of something purple over him and he turned back into a human. She gave him a beaker with strange orange color and told him that his wife is a very powerful dark witch. If he manages to spray her with few drops of the beaker, she would turn into a horse. After that he must decide what to do with her. He returned home and indeed managed to spray her with the strange orange drops. She turned into a horse. What would you do in his place? I don’t remember what he did after that and the comment of Peter Dunov about this case.

So, do you still care for a cookie?

The thing, that one must do for sure in one’s life, is to choose – a cookie, a partner, a school for the children, a roommate, a job, an option among million possibilities… every day, every hour decision after decision…

Since the time goes only in one-way direction as follows: from past-through present-to future, the planet and its inhabitants are only once in time at certain age, development stage and situation. If all humans manage to cut the branches, on which they are sitting, in the end they would all fall from a height and die. And the tree, left without its branches and leaves, would die soon after too. The ways of acting “funny” and stupid, meaning cutting the branches, saying “no” and finding another way, as Einstein once explained, are infinite. I am not able to give all possible foul ways of destroying one’s treasures (health, dignity, family…) that is infinite and impossible.

On the other hand, the number of units in our treasure chest – the health, the dignity, the family… - is finite. For example:

If one would destroy one’s health – when the health is gone, one cannot live as before. If the damage is constantly afflicted – let’s say one dies sometimes (very) soon. If the damage is critical – one dies (sometimes) immediately, no matter the place, right on the stop, right now.

If one would destroy one’s dignity – there is a saying from my hometown Plovdiv: if your sister got a bad name, it is too late to explain everyone that you don’t have any sister.

And so on.

If one would destroy one’s family – one must know that in this life one has only 1 mother and 1 father, 2 grannies and 2 grandpas. No one would cry for one’s loss, as a mother would, and no one would curse the fate for one’s loss, as one’s father would, if one loses them. In case one has siblings – they are not million unknown humans – they are few humans in this world, who shared your journey on this planet since you were a baby, who know a lot about you and who care about you more or less.

The cookies are baked and fresh today. They gifted the house with vanilla aroma. In a week there will be no vanilla scent around and if any of the cookies remained, it won’t be as tasty as it is now. Before making this choice – to take one(s) of all cookie experiences, that one would like to taste – remember to be on time – the cookies are most delicious, when they have just been taken out of the oven and given to you.