We use to combine happy moments with sweet treats. After life’s important events, we use to offer sweets. On birthdays we eat cake, after graduation, wedding, childbirth we offer something sweet. Even more, after lunch we need desperately dessert, as our food journey comes to an end with a sweet taste.
Sweeteners are in our life, improve our mood and are a big source of energy. But how can we evaluate that sweetness is so attractive? Why bitter taste is disgusting for most people? I put aside biological reasons. The fact is that we wouldn't appreciate sweet taste, if bitter, salty and sour didn’t n exist.
Life is sweet. But also is bitter, sometimes is salty and often is sour. There is happiness, but also there is sadness, anger and many different emotions. We prefer to be happy, as we prefer to eat sweets instead of bitter treats.
We have to accept that we wouldn’t be able to live happy moments, if negative feelings didn’t exist. We evaluate happiness by comparing it with something sad. We should live by accepting all different emotions because they exist in our life and it is impossible to avoid them. Similar, we can’t live only with happiness, as we can’t live eating only sugar.
Don’t forget to pair your bitter coffee with something sweet. That's why you love this contrast! Sweet taste can’t exist without bitter, so live your happy life, accepting some sad moments.
*illustration by almarte
**tools:iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, app-procreate
this is so cute!
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