The Pie Theory: A Story About Pie.

A pie with multiple fruits

Love is not a piece of pie, Love is all the stars in the sky
Love is not a slice to give, Love is grains of sand to live

Love cannot be handed out, passed around and then run out
Love is endless as the sea, the more I give, it gives back to me.

A simple (okay, not that great) rhyme I made up to teach my children about love when they were very small.

Love is not a normal slice of pie. In a Love Pie, no matter how many slices you hand out, you will never run out.

It can't be done. Real love pie never runs out. This is the secret of the Pie Theory.

As they got older, they understood that the Pie Theory is more than just about love. Love is the most profound example of the Pie Theory, but it isn't by any means its only application.

The Pie Theory is about giving. Genuine, heartfelt giving. Every slice of yummy pie you give out will come back to you. Probably double, maybe more. You won't always see the direct correlation, but trust me, it's there.

Pie Doesn't Lie.

However, it can't be fooled. This is a very important rule. You can't pretend to give out pie when you are only loaning it out to get something back. You have to REALLY give it out and never expect to see it again. Just give it away with a smile and take a walk.  Expect nothing. Because loaning pie just gets you your pie back, or worse, no pie at all.

Here is the bad news: It works the same way with yucky pie, too. Better make sure you have some really delicious, fresh ingredients that you would enjoy eating in that pie of yours before you hand it out. If you are handing out Onion and Old Fish Pie, I hope you plan on eating heaps of it yourself.

Pie Doesn't Lie. It can't be tricked. If you are handing out a lifetime supply of crap pie, don’t expect to be given back great pie!

Now, one sad thing about pie is that some people are into hanging on to all their pie for themselves. They are comfortable with their own pie. Maybe they really like their pie, maybe they don't want to lose their slices, maybe they don't trust anyone else’s pie. They think very carefully about to whom and when they are handing out their pie. They may not have held on to the whole thing; they may have shared a slice or two, but they don't get back much new pie either. So for them, there really isn't much pie, and they learn to hoard and hang on to the pie. Their own pie gets old, stale, and boring. No new tasty, interesting pie comes to take its place.

In the end, they die with a sad, little, old tasteless pie.

Alone.

If that’s not your goal, try this. Try to give away all the pie. ALL the pie.

Guess what? It can't be done. It keeps coming back. The more pie you give away, the more pie comes back, delicious, flavorful, loving, exciting pie. Soon you will have so much pie you won't know what to do with it all. You will become FAT with pie. Then you can go on to the next problem. How to store and balance the abundance of pie in your life.

That's a much nicer problem to have.

Pie anyone?