Candy Corn...

Some people love it.  Most people hate it.  There aren’t very many people who are lukewarm on the whole candy corn thing.  Kinda like pumpkin spice latte, perhaps that is the new candy corn of 2025.  

I heard candy corn used the other day as a metaphor for relationships and since Halloween is just around the corner, I thought, “hey, that is a good topic that I haven’t done before!”

So here we go...

We all have people we just adore.  Then we have people we just don’t.  Lots of reasons to be swayed to either camp, just a lot of reasons our personage vibes with another, and perhaps more reasons as to why they don’t.

But just like good old candy corn, there will always be, no matter what, people that love us for who we are and then the haters.  And isn’t it nice to know that no matter how polarizing you might be, there is still going to be a loyal fan base, and in your case, you don’t have to wait until Halloween every year to find them.

I think there are a lot of meh people in the world today.  People that just do not engender high emotions one way of the other.  And perhaps these are the people we tend to associate with and date most.  They aren’t going to love us the way we desperately want to be loved, but they are not going to demand very much from us either.

And then there are those people who either conjure up passionate, intense and loyal longing and love.  They are the ones we hoped for all along but once we get, find we might have a hard time putting up with all their “theirness.”

And because every strong emotion has to have an opposite, there are those people who we just can’t stand, sometimes for good reason, sometimes we just hate em.

And thus the candy corn metaphor comes full circle.  

What I love about the metaphor is that you can always count on both.  The lovers and the haters. In the case of candy corn, I think there are far more haters than lovers (I have done a poll - I asked 20 people, 1 person loved them - I know not an exhaustive sampling but I think it tracks the public at large).  And I have taken this and run with it like I usually do.

In relationships, being a candy corn means that it might take you a bit longer and have to put forth more effort than say chocolate to find your people, but there are people out there that adore you for you.  That waxy, overly sweet you.  And they are loyal and adoring.  But you are gonna have to put some effort in to find them.

I mean if you are chocolate, almost everyone loves you.  The debate rages on about dark or milk and then all those weirdos who prefer white.  I would place a bet that the white chocolate people like candy corn...just a theory.  Prove me wrong!  For the chocolate people, finding your people is way easier than if you are candy corn.

I guess the thing to remember is that the candy corn people are going to have to work harder to find their people, but once they find them, they are fucking home!  But the chocolate people, man, you can find them everywhere, but it is going to take a lot longer to find the right kind of chocolate person.

So if you are more like candy corn, and less like chocolate, take heart, your people are out there, the pool is smaller but once you arrive, you are all set.  People who seem to love candy corn, love it forever.  And once you find your people, who really gives two shits about all your haters.  You are now well ensconced in your people and your vibe.  So let the haters hate, let them eat their hearts out, because you know it will not be on candy corn, leaving more for you and your kin.

And in case you are wondering...

I am a no to candy corn, dark chocolate and white chocolate.

Milk chocolate all the way baby, which upon further reflection, really does sum up my whole dating experience...

Again, still...