Thursday, December 8, 2016

Blog Post 5 - Forgotten Feelings Pie

This pie is composed of many sweet ingredients. From its cotton candy insides to its frosted surface of M&Ms and sprinkles, the pie is everything one would expect from first dates and trips to the movie theater. But while the pie holds a beautiful exterior, what it hides beneath is less than appetizing. 

The Forgotten Feelings Pie symbolizes a broken love. Although its outside is made of treats and desserts shared on dates, times of bliss, when the pie leaves the oven, it is steaming and looks ready to burst. The sides of the pie are blackened and the skin looks like its about to crumble. The ingredients do not sit well. Decorate the top with large hearings of frosting and draw, using red frosting, a heart in half. Only then is it finished. 

Even though the pie’s ingredients are originally tasty and tantalizing, they have morphed into ashes, used to symbolize how happier times have now become moments of regret and anger. The pie itself bulges at the sides not only because the ingredients are so unorthodox, but because they symbolize all the feelings of repression of emotions one may undergo at the end of a relationship. 


The pie consists of:
4 small bags of Valentine’s Day M&Ms
a bag of popcorn
hunks of cotton candy
a few servings of ice cream sundaes
a cup of coffee
and dough to mix it all together


Yet by eating the pie, symbolically, one is swallowing his or her past feelings of regret along with the present feelings of fear and uncertainty; he or she is moving forward and looking ahead into the future. Just like the momentary happiness of eating a sweet, tangy pie, feelings of sadness and regret as one undergoes through a broken relationship, are also temporary. In the end, the consumption of the pie is significant because it means all forgotten feelings have been dealt with and the future is still full off opportunities and new adventures, more than just what lies on a single plate. 

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