Good time to you, Jazz Pickles.
Have you ever wanted to be a piñata? I can think of ways that most of us already are, and like everything in life, it includes a light side and a dark side.
First, the shadow: As children, we often approach life with abandon, not worrying if we eat too many sweets, don’t file our taxes on time, or forget to exercise regularly. We think we can be movie stars, astronauts, or drone pilots when we grow up, having no idea of the hard work and sheer luck it takes to achieve our dreams, or the awareness that drones don’t have pilots. Then, as adults, the realities of life hit us as we prepare for another day as a robot’s personal assistant because there are no other jobs left.
Plus, we can’t eat many of our favorite foods anymore because all those sweets gave us diabetes. Oh!
Now the positive side: Just like piñatas, we are all beautiful, colorful, whimsical creatures full of sweetness. It’s no wonder children want to tear us open and fight for our insides as they fall to the ground. But if we can avoid children’s parties, the sky is the limit when we become pilots of colorful, papier-mâché, donkey-shaped astronaut drones.
Instead of candy, some of us are filled with strange, clumsy analogies like the above, and we become cartoonists, as evidenced by a couple of previous efforts below.