Cake Is Rarely About Cake

People think they’re ordering dessert.

They’re not.

They’re ordering relief because they forgot a birthday.
They’re ordering gratitude for a coworker who stayed late every night last month.
They’re ordering pride because their daughter worked four years for that diploma.
They’re ordering closure for a retirement they don’t quite have words for yet.

Cake is the part people gather around when they don’t know what to say — and somehow it says it for them.