Cookies are better

"The truth" they ask, but they don't really mean that. No one wants to hear the truth. They want comforting, loving, homemade pies of lies and half truths. 

Well, I don't bake that. I love cookies, and they are crusty, sometimes as hard as a mistake, and maybe bitter like the truth, but they are delicious. Oh, those chocolate chips goodies! That melted chocolate that gets all over your face feels like childhood, back when lying felt like murder. 

But some people want cake, where you can find the truth in one of the layers, if you're looking for it. And some people want cupcakes, lies covered with way too much sugar. And pies, who doesn't love pies? You could bake anything you want inside a pie. And all of these taste nicely enough to live with. 

Specially when the cookie jar is too high, not out of reach, but we are forced to have cupcakes, pies and cakes, because the one that invited us over will not go through the trouble of reaching for the cookie jar. And the funniest part is baking a pie filled with lies, hiding the truth in a cake or omitting the half truths and lies under thick minion cupcake decoration it's way harder than just reaching for the cookie jar. 

But we still prefer to lie. We eat our pies with our guests, and they taste wonderfully, just like our fantasies. We cry alone in our bedrooms having a sad piece of cake, because the truth is buried and we don't care about it anymore. And how many hours did we spent decorating cupcakes, pretending everything is okay, because Disney characters are just too cute?  

It's cookie time. 

It's time to climb all the way up and reach for the cookie jar on top of the fridge. We'll go through so much, specially the freezer, which is as cold as dropping our perfect pie on the ground. But when we reach for those cookies, nothing else will taste the same. 

I'll be honest now, people prefer pies, cakes and cupcakes, they don't want the truth, no one likes bitter, sour, disappointing cookies, and they will not like you for leaving that after aftertaste in their mouths. And their reactions will make you question your love for cookies. But remember how you felt when you found out your friend didn't even bake that pie, he bought it and gave it to you. And you'll know why bitter, sour, disappointing cookies are better.