Finished watching Strawberry on the Shortcake. The title is apparently based on the question, if you like strawberries, would you eat the strawberry on the shortcake first or leave it to the last?

It's a bit annoying when the male main character obsesses incessantly about how incompatible he is with the girl he likes (his non blood-related stepsister) because he leaves his strawberry to the last while she eats it first. But i guess that's rather understandable because people actually do that in real life. So many people like to take strange personality quizzes (look at what many 'friends' do on facebook) and set their lives store by what kind of anime character, cocktail, or aura colour they are.

(Though i'm no better myself, having said things like 'i don't like this major change because i'm a DISC S-type', when it should be 'i don't like this major change, guess i'm a S-type, hehe.')

I like the scene in one of the last episodes when his ex brings his hospitalized stepsister a box of cakes, but invites him to eat one because he's hungry. He opens the box to find that they're strawberry shortcakes, picks one up and hesistates, wondering where he should start first. It's like, eating the strawberry first would be changing yourself to the kind of person you want to be, and yet it would be untrue to yourself, letting yourself be changed by the influence of others. I like the way he goes, 'Even now you put me in a spot, angel.'

Anyway, I guess people who eat the strawberry first are the live-in-the-moment kind of people, while people who eat it last are people who worry about the future. Both lifestyles involve some kind of sacrifice. The first kind is the kind to spend their happiness too quickly, leaving no insurance for the future, while the second is the kind who cannot enjoy life at the moment because they're always looking into the future. And there's also the disappointment if the strawberry turns out to be not as good as one expected. The safest way, i think, would be to eat the strawberry bit by bit along the way, like, a small bite with every, say, three forkfuls of cake. Plus i think the strawberry would be too sour on its own, and the creamy cake too sweet, so it's better for them it complement each other in that way?

Though i guess if one really likes strawberry, it's more satisfying to eat it whole in one go than have a small chunk periodically.