Many want a cake
Life never hands us a cake. It gives us the ingredients, and waits to see what we will create.
We are completely responsible for our lives, for who we are, and for the path we walk. No one else is. Yet most of us want the cake ready-made. We want happiness, success, and love delivered in a perfect package, without the work of mixing, kneading, or waiting for the oven of time. When life offers us flour, sugar, or even bitter herbs, we resist. We demand a cake, not ingredients. We forget that the cake is not given, it is baked.
Some let their ingredients rot in neglect. Some throw them together carelessly and complain about the taste. Others, with patience and intention, turn what they’ve been given into something nourishing, beautiful, even extraordinary.
Yes, sometimes life gives us bitter ingredients, loss, rejection, failure, heartbreak. But even bitterness can add depth, flavor, and wisdom if we allow it. It is often said that “Life does not give us what we want, but what we need.” Whether or not that is literally true, it is a liberating way to live. Every challenge becomes raw material, waiting to be transformed.
Suffering does not come from the ingredients, but from our resistance to them. From telling ourselves the story that we are broken, unworthy, or incomplete. The truth is that you already have everything you need. You are perfect as you are, complete, capable, and powerful enough to transform whatever life hands you.
Happiness is not baked from possessions, beauty, or fame. It rises from within, from self-worth, gratitude, presence, and love without boundaries. Fulfillment comes when we stop asking for the finished product and start creating with what is already in our hands.
So, reflect: what are you doing with the ingredients life has given you? Are you wasting them in complaint, or are you creating something magnificent? One day, your table will be set, and you will serve the life you have baked. Will it be nourishing, beautiful, worth sharing, or will it be half-baked and unfinished?
The recipe is yours. The oven is ready. The choice is always in your hands.
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Author: Maurice "Mao" Correa
Website: pathtoone.com
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This one brought me to tears. Once again, thank you dear friend for these truths you share.
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