One day, I visited a friends home and she offered me some of her banana pudding. She offered me, with the utmost pride, a serving of her mother’s banana pudding. She then emphasized that the pudding was from “scratch”. My mouth watered and I willingly said, “yes”. When I got the pudding, I noticed that it did not look as appetizing as I previously thought. She had made the pudding, but had not made it well. The pudding was grainy as if the sugar was not cooked all the way and then there was a great absence of milk to make the pudding light instead of heavy. I thought to myself, that this person should have used a box of banana pudding because she could not make it that well. As a matter of fact, this person as not a good cook at all. She thought that if she made it herself, that was better than buying it. Not in my opinion. The reason why we have boxed pudding is so that we can have excellent pudding in a few steps. If you can’t beat the box, than buy the box. Homemade is not the best when it can’t beat the store bought. Excellence is like this. We sometimes think that we are doing something well, when actually someone else can do it better. Excellence is not just knowing how to do something, but it is also knowing when to outsource it to someone else who can do it better. It is shameful pride that would make someone do something inferior when someone can do it better. I wish my friend would have trusted her pudding to Jell-o.
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