Eat the Cake

This post can probably be summed up in significantly fewer than 150 words: Life is Short, Eat the Cake.

…Even if it’s somewhat stale Safeway-made cake that sat overnight in the refrigerator, it’s still better than having your morning coffee solo. And it might make you feel a little bit better about your customer running out of budget and canceling some licenses. Because perhaps a calorie surplus will make up a little bit for a commercial budget deficit.

Maybe I don’t even really need a reason. Every day can’t be a cake day (or I’ll need a new budget for pants), but on the days where there’s a cake windfall I should enjoy it without any guilt.

There are many days without windfalls, cake or otherwise. After all, life is nothing without contrasts and challenges. The cake this morning would have been much less fun if I’d gotten cake last week, or any time in the recent past.

Plus, I think cake is especially wonderful in the morning, which isn’t the socially accepted time to ingest icing and decadence.