She'll Make You Sweat In The Water

I have a recipe for peanut butter cookies that I learned in the Girl Scouts some number of years ago that I still use to this very day. It's a really simple recipe with only three ingredients. Four if you enjoy chocolate chips in your peanut butter cookies. Take one cup of peanut butter, toss in one cup of sugar, and then mix in an egg and there you go. Plop cookie sized portions on a cookie sheet, mash 'em down with a fork and bake 'em about 15 minutes on 350 and you've got cookies.

Simple, yeah? Straight forward. No need to look at that and over think it, yeah?

Wrong.

Through the years as I give this recipe to people, someone along the way will argue with me that I've left something out. That can't be all there is. There should be more stuff. There needs to be more complication to this. No cookie can only have three simple ingredients and be good. You're wrong, I'm wrong, everybody is wrong until we toss in all sorts of other stuffs that this recipe does not need.

But, that's the nature of humans isn't it? To over think. To want things to be more complicated than they are. To take the long way, the around the ass to get to the elbow way. To not believe that things are simply what they appear to be.

Me included. I take very little at face value and with my frustration at people wanting to muck up my cookie recipe with all sorts of stuff that isn't necessary, I'm beginning to kinda see how frustrating I must be to others. Sure, I can sit here and point to all the reasons why. The lies that have been told to me. The lies that have been told about me. The tricks and rug from under pulling that has been done.

Even now, as recent as this weekend I learned that the one person I didn't think to be a liar....is. Over the most asinine subjects. So, if he was lying about that type of stuff to others, isn't it natural that I would then sit here and think he'd probably lied to me? Even though it doesn't matter. But there goes my brain...thinking, wondering, pondering, adding baking soda where it's not needed. Because if he lied to me....who else is? Who else will? Who isn't?

I just need to stop. Everybody isn't a liar. Everybody is not out to trick me and hurt me. All cookies do not need flour!

Simple. Face value. Trust. We'll see.