gobstoppers

for those who are wondering why i brought up gobstoppers -

well, gobstoppers are traditionally sweets - big round balls of sweets made up of different flavours. :) there's strawberry, cola, chocolate, raspberry, orange... and the unpopular ones like licorice, tuna, earwax (if you're a harry potter fan).

well, people are like gobstoppers.

some may argue people are like onions but i'd say otherwise. onions don't have hearts. and they make people cry. so there.


well, anyway. people are gobstoppers because each and every layer (facet) is different. some layers you like, some layers you like very much and some layers, well: tuna.

every one of these's got these many layers to them, each gobstopper's pretty different from each other. ones you get from asia are probably a little bit milder, a little bit more "exotic", like that chap russell peters mentioned in chinatown - while those you get from say, the americas and europe are probably flavoured like fried chicken. with mayo. and guns. and "his gobber rights".

come to think of it, those from tibet probably taste like goats cheese... in the good way. if you like goat's - ahem, mountain goat's cheese. you probably can eat bread with that gobstopper and feel that it's the best meal in the world. if you like goat's cheese.


anyways. so everyone's a gobstopper. when you're friends, sister/brother, boyfriend/girlfriend with someone, you know there are different flavours to that person. it's a matter if that gobstopper is an old gobstopper or not. or if that gobstopper is one you can do without.

for family, you can't just spit that stopper out. for people you call friends - probably not, neither. considering you don't have to live with them and chances of you needing to evict them from your life altogether are well, low. having said that though, i'm sure we all understand that friends're going to be the the most important people in your life.

for girlfriends/boyfriends, well. you may be going to have to spend the rest of your lives with them and that's intense, right, so it's best to taste each and every one carefully. it's a little bit like eating a lolli (this is when you're "just dating" - you can still taken them out of your mouth when you want to talk) but when you're married sometimes the lolli loses the stick and becomes a whole real gobstopper. cause that's what happens when you actually live with each other.

sometimes people can't deal with having bought a gobbie and having to have it in his mouth, as a result they try to move it to the side of their mouths so they can speak resulting in them seeming socially inept. some try to spit it out, because, well, "it wasn't what they expected" or "the flavour changed!"

lol

reasons to spit, really.


with human gobstoppers however, each time you spit one out, you cry. because it hurts that damn much when she punches you in the mouth. no doubt, you have other teeth and sometimes new teeth grow - but hey.

i don't know about you, but i've come to the point in which i understand that people will always be gobstoppers (and i'm quite done being punched in the teeth). sometimes they come from a pack that reads "underlying pickled corn flavour" and other times they come from ones that read "addictive poppadum that's too salty overtones throughout".

and sometimes, just sometimes, they come in packs that simply translates to "just right.*" : )





*fineprint: "with occasional flavours of double-boiled wintermelon and pork laced with cinnamon."