BE THE COOKIE

(At this point I haven't filmed the video PSA yet, but it's intended to be a "this is your brain" spin-off. Consider this a preparatory text.)

So I was thinking the other day: how about using physical metaphors in a video PSA? How about physical metaphors concerning your brain and an influential substance? How cool would that be? It's weird, though, I've started getting a lot of hate mail from Partnership for a Drug-Free America...
I digress.

Let's say your brain is a lump of raw cookie dough. Let's not, for the moment, consider the prepackaged rolls or sheets of break-apart squares. Let's imagine the lump. It's cold, it's sticky, it's formless, and it could give you salmonella. This isn't to say that your brain isn't delicious without anything added to it. It just isn't necessarily in its ideal state.
Ok. Braindough is clear? Onward.

The next object is kindness. Kindness is warm. I wouldn't recommend going out without a coat on at night just because you've had a nice day, but it has a lot of cozy context associated with it. Let's assert, then, that kindness is the heat in an oven.

So. Cookie-dough is to oven is to finished cookie as your brain is to kindness is to... happy brain! Imagine a cookie that has been left to sit for a minute or two after being removed from the oven. It is so buttery and full of chocolate chips and warmth. Be the cookie. Imagine the way kindness makes you feel: a compliment to your favorite socks, a lunch split with a friend, a call to see if you are feeling up to snuff. Being nice produces happiness akin to the fresh-baked cookie.

That having been said, an ovenful of kindness does seem excessive if it only produces one cookie. Remember, though: an ovenful of kindness produces MANY cookies, and even after they are baked, the cookies radiate their own heat. This, however, is a lesson for another day. Tomorrow's topic: GIVE THE COOKIE.

Until then: happy baking.

L. Greene