Broken Cookies

For all the readers that have been following my blog, you know that I struggle with being conflicted on nearly every subject.  Given that nearly any subject can have alternating points of view and I clearly have two opposing sides to my personality...there is ALWAYS  a "glass half  empty, glass half full kind of conflict in play.





Thought #1-----I am a "broken cookie" person

No...I am not broken ....nor am a a giant human cookie.  Here's the deal...



I was watching a movie the other day where one of the character described herself as the "broken cookie" person.  She explained that if presented with a plate of cookies, she would not take the nice round cookie on the top that was perfect....but instead she would take the broken, less than perfect cookie.  Her reasoning was that she was undeserving of the best cookie. 

I totally related to that.  I would take the broken cookie. That is so me. HOWEVER,  I don't attribute it to me feeling that I don't deserve the best.  DESERVE is a strong word.  I don't know that I deserve anything more or less than the next guy.  To me it will taste the same and I don't care, need, require or desire the perfect one. 

 I am not just saying I would be fine and be all martyr-like, I mean I am really, sincerely FINE with it.   The fact is that there are others that really, really, NEED that perfect cookie. Let them have it.  Perhaps their self worth is linked to it or perhaps they just feel entitled to it...either way they need it.

So whether you are a "broken cookie person" or a "perfect cookie person" OR a "pound dog person" or a "pedigree dog person", there isn't a right and a wrong so much as recognizing your motivation for wanting what you want.


There is a warning that comes with being a  "broken cookie person".  While I am more than willing to take the Christmas tree with the flat side or the slightly over done piece of toast, ...there are times that you just have to insist that the cookie is right.  The time I had a surgery and they took out the wrong part....I really should have INSISTED that I got the perfect cookie.  Sometimes, it is crucial that you receive the best cookie.


Thought #2....If I baked the cookies, I wouldn't want anyone to have to take a broken cookie.

However, if I am not on the receiving end but the "offering" end of this cookie situation, I want everyone to have perfect cookies.  I would hate that you would be put into the position of being the "broken cookie person".  If you had Mickey Mouse pancakes at my house, I want it to have two cute ears AND I would want you to have whipped butter and warm syrup.  See the conflict here.  I am fine at being the broken cookie person but I never want you to have to be the broken cookie person if I have the control to prevent it.


OK...Maybe I am broken.

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