I scream, you scream, we all scream...

Life is like being at an ice cream parlour.

There are so many enticing flavours to choose from but only so many that you're allowed to pick at any one time. The flavours also get more and more complicated when you get older. When I was a kid, there were only vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. Now they have all sorts - forest berry, cookie dough, durian, tiramisu, lemon meringue...

So you're forced to make a selection among these sometimes foreign, multi-worded flavour names. If you're lucky, the guy/girl behind the counter gives you a break and lets you sample one to see if you like it. Other times, you just have to pick one and hope you do.

Invididually, the flavours could be genius. But once you combine them, there's a chance they won't go well together and it spoils the whole thing. Quite possibly you'll hesitate to pick those same flavours the next time you visit, when if you had stuck to just one the first time you would've really enjoyed it.

Then again, if only life was an actual ice cream parlour, we'd all be a lot happier. Who doesn't like ice cream, right?