Forrest was wrong: Life is like a muffin......

People brag and say they want community, but I am calling it out.... 

Many times, they don't... Not real community.

Community is the new cool hipster buzzword.  And anybody who is anybody is in one.  Except, many times, it really isn't community at all.  It's just another fist bumpin' good time to pretend.  Trust me... I know A LOT about the word "pretend" and "perform"
I was a professional pretender/ manipulator.

Remember that old line, "You can't kid a kidder?"

Well, you can't "pretend" with a recovered "pretender" 

Forrest Gump said,  "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get...."


Well, I know this can be true, but I want to suggest that life is like a muffin....

Kinda like THIS muffin below!

 You know how it is.  you order the beautiful muffin at the counter with your coffee.  It looks so good and you can't resist, right?  Anyone else like me and go for the top first?  I never dive right in and take a bite...sinking my teeth into it.  No, I pick off the top first.  I love muffin tops  Then, I will pick and eat around the edges.  By the time the center is exposed and vulnerable, I am done.  I feel full and don't want to finish off the extra calories.  I got "just enough" to satisfy that yearning, and the rest goes in the trash.  (poor little cinnamon toffee muffin)

POOR.  LITTLE.  MUFFIN. 

How often do we do that to each other?  I observe this a lot in Nashville.  It's like a mini Los Angeles here.  (my judgment of course)  It's everywhere... Churches, groups, campuses, gyms, DATING, basically any community of your choosing.....

People brag and say they want community, but I am calling it out.... They don't... they just want the muffin tops.

I am guilty of participating in this behavior.  You know the kind.... You see a lovely  hipster "muffin" and you are intrigued.  It looks so good.  Your hipster community has so many to choose from too!

People are so pretty and cool and hip and talented her in Nash, bruh.  I mean, let's "totes" hang out soon.... says no unhip muffin ever.

Sometimes, I feel like this muffin.  I'm willing to bet you do too.  You feel like "Yay!  Someone is coming to get me!"  But they only get to the surface ( a nibble... maybe even a bite or two) before they leave you exposed  ( the good stuff is still there waitin').  They have enjoyed the surface... just a little.  But they are not committing to the entire muffin.

I am committed to the entire muffin today...   How about you?  

side note:  I would like to add how very grateful I am for this muffin... it was DE-LISH!