What Flavour Are You?
What does your personality say about you? A lot of time, we as women, have the tendency to bring each other down more than our male counterparts. We judge each other based on the minor things that do not make a person but only mask or enhance who they are from the inside out. Have you ever met someone who is ‘beautiful’ on the outside but ‘ugly’ on the inside? Some of you are probably saying you’ve also seen it the other way around, someone looking a ‘hot mess’ on the outside but is a very nice person. So the million dollar question is what kind of flavor/taste do you leave in people’s mouths after you cross their paths? Is it sweet, sour, salty or bitter? To help us better understand, let’s look at the flavor positions on a tongue….
SWEET
The first taste bud we see is either sweet or salty. For sake of illustration let’s go with sweet!!! (Located on the tip of your tongue) (Proverbs 16:24) Sweet is defined as: pleasing to the mind or feelings; marked by gentle good humor or kindliness; fragrant; delicately pleasing to the ear or eye; very good or appealing; much loved; not sour, rancid, decaying, or stale; wholesome; fresh; free from excessive acidity; skillful and proficient So with this definition let’s examine our attitudes on a sweet level. Are you gentle and pleasing to people when they first meet you? Or is you attitude nasty and decaying? When people come across your path, as a woman, it ought to be pleasant, kind and wholesome. But be careful because everything that is sweet is not good for you and can cause cavities. Examine whether or not you are a breath of fresh air or your breath just stank!!! |
SALTY
The second taste bud is salty (on the front sides of your tongue and towards the middle) (Matthew 5:13) Salty is defined as: seasoned with, or containing salt; earthy, crude; piquant (agreeably stimulating to the palate [spicy] or engagingly provocative) With this definition let’s examine our attitudes on a salty level. Point blank are you crude. We like the definition of a little ‘spicy’ for people to handle. Are you the salt that adds flavor to people when you are in their company? Or the salt that causes a person’s blood pressure to rise? Salt is ok in small quantities but can be harmful in large quantities. Salt can be used to break up ice or preserve dead things. So needless to say are you a problem solver that adds flavor to the people around you or do you gossip and preserve negativity around you? Don’t be salty!!! |
SOUR
The third taste bud is sour (on the sides of your tongue) (Proverbs 18:21) Sour is defined as: having the acid taste/smell of fermentation; smelling or tasting of decay; rancid; rotten; bad, wrong; hostile, disenchanted; unpleasant, distasteful With this definition let’s examine our attitudes on a sour level. We don’t know about you but WE DO NOT enjoy the smell or process of fermentation. Come on no one wants to smell or drink spoiled milk. Do you leave people with a bad taste in their mouth because you are unpleasant, hostile and distasteful? Are your words rotten or decaying in your mouth? Just like that milk, don’t linger with a stench of sourness that people will never get a chance to see how sweet you can be. |
BITTER
The very last taste bud is bitter (at the back of your tongue) (Proverbs 14:1,10) Bitter is defined as: distasteful or distressing to the mind; marked by intensity or severity; accompanied by severe pain or suffering; being relentlessly determined; exhibiting intense animosity; harshly reproachful; marked by cynicism and rancor; intensely unpleasant especially in coldness or rawness; expressive of severe pain, grief, or regret With this definition let’s examine our attitude on a bitter level. Now let’s just be real, there are a lot of ‘bitter’ people especially women in this world. Whether some man did you wrong, your momma wasn’t there or you don’t have any friends; for some reason or another we cross paths with people who are bitter because of life experiences that they don’t know how to cope with or choose not to face. Notice that the bitter taste is at the very back of your tongue and the last taste bud before you swallow something. This could mean people should not half to experience you being bitter with the intent to devour before they get to experience some sweetness, saltiness or even sourness from you. The point is to examine your attitude before you get to the bitter stages of life. |