Human relationships — any way of joining together, such as marriage, friendship or co-workers — are like pancakes. You’ve got to wait for them to cook!
The syrup makes the pancakes, the pancakes don’t make the syrup. But you can’t enjoy that sweet sugary adornment until the foundation, the pancakes, is solid. Otherwise you end up with a disgusting mess.
Too often today we’re rushing and distracted. We take our relationships and the people in our lives for granted. We don’t give the pancakes enough time to cook!
You might let one side get nice and golden brown: we get to know each other, go out to dinner and all of this. But you can’t expect syrup then, you’ve got to flip that flapjack and then you still have another whole side to cook.
You shouldn’t ever rush your food, you want it to come out right. There’s no substitute for time and tender loving care.
And once you master that, it’s time to share the love with others. Once we get the syrup on the pancakes, we’ll have a better form of humanity. We have the capacity. We just don’t do it. We’ve got to bring the love.
From the laws we make to the feelings we express, recognizing we are all really the same would be the sweetness on top of those pancakes.
