Re-inventing the Gingerbread Man Baked of the finest flour and ginger with sugar syrup, neatly shaped with a rounded mouth and dotted eyes and straight from a hot oven, it’s no secret that on the day that the Gingerbread Man was born, he hit the ground running. If he were curious about something he saw, he would grab for it. If he were curious about something that he smelt he would do his utmost to taste it, and he would listen on end to every sound that met his ears to orient them. Later that night the little old woman who had baked him had a dream about eating the Gingerbread Man. When she woke in the morning she wanted more than anything in the whole world to eat him up. Sizing up the desires of the little old woman, the Gingerbread Man ran away to avoid being eaten. All alone and away from the little old woman, the Gingerbread Man had to find out how to survive on his own. He formed his crumby thoughts on his own. The Gingerbread Man wasn’t as curious as you might think when he met the Gingerbread Woman. They understood that each of them both could try and eat each other up. But what would be the point in that? Instead they agreed to try and help protect and take care of each other to live a long, secure life. So happily, they were allowed be 100% who they were in each other’s company and tied the knot in a deed (in fact a mortgage with which they bought a house within the reach of affordable resources). It seemed that their marriage was the perfect union of not just all of the people involved, for each had a large family and large networks of friends and social acquaintances, but also of the circumstances – when the Gingerbread Boy was born they had all the support and help they needed to make it work out lifelong. Because the Gingerbread Man and Gingerbread Woman worked hard with their co-workers (in jobs that they believed in so that they could put up with the aspects of the work that they hated) they had the budget to control their circumstances (knowing that if they were lucky enough to have some luxuries not to cherish them because they come and go), and they were also rewarded with an understanding of when time off work was needed at short notice and they were even allowed take prolonged periods off work to tend to family matters. It wasn’t so much about joint responsibility as interplanetary responsibility because if both of them suddenly fell jobless, the government would also chip in with a few periodical monetary contributions to get them by. This was a language that was understood all over the universe. Successfully cultivating vegetables in a self-replicating bio-regenerative life support colony on Mars they both had enormous turnips for tea and lived happily ever after in a preservationist fairytale ending in Space. Honesty has consequences that the mind can easily afford. The End.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:57:09 +0000
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