Have you ever felt life is a recipe?

Just like when we enter the kitchen and start cooking, we have the ingredients and the exact steps to reach what we call "happiness", but we prefer to add more of this and less of that. Maybe it's just boring to follow the instructions just the way they are written, and that's good because life gets more interesting and somewhat mysterious (we won't know if we added to much salt or if we needed more heat until we try it, right?).

Life has a variety of flavors and colors, and we decide which ones to taste, not always consciously but we do, like when a friend says something that shouldn't be said at that exact moment, we decide whether to ignore it and move on or get upset and yell at him/her. I know sometimes it's very difficult to forget others, it's easier getting angry and blame them than staying calm and accept your fault, I mean, no one like feeling you were wrong, we are "perfect".

And speaking about perfection, we are always taught that humans can make mistakes, but once we do one every single person that notices it will criticize you and then the gossip will get the ears of people like your parents, teachers, friends and even your boss, and there we have a problem.

Why are mistakes such a big deal? Why can't we just say "Oops! I did it again..", correct it and continue walking without everyone staring at you? We know that there's no prefect human, I can bet my car on it, we ALL make mistakes at least once in our life, and only once is impossible. We trip, we fall, we say one thing instead of another, we do crazy things that then regret, we fall in love with someone we don't know, we gossip, we laugh about others and talk behind our friend's back, we add too much salt, we take the cake 10 minutes before from the oven and sometimes we even get burned.

This is life, just like cooking, we can do whatever we want and life will be sure to make of every mistake, a life long experience, so next time we try doing a delicious meal, we will succeed making it the most tasty and colorful of all.