Don't you hate it when you're at a restaurant, ordering dessert, and you can't choose between the lava cake (absolutely chocotastic) and that sweet apple pie with the ice cream already melting in the steamy crust? What about at starbucks, when you gotta choose between the healthy green tea or go all out for the espresso truffle (im a chocolate fan.... what can i say?).
Today, for example, I booked it home from the gym so hungry I could eat my own arm. I had the choice between a huuge bowl of Breyers Vanilla (which my family NEVER buys - we usually just get the no name brand) or some yogurt with craisins and almonds. As tempting as the bowl of ice cream was, I made the choice to have the yogurt.
What a crazy girl, you might be thinking. Yeah, yeah, i know the phrase (and live it daily): Life is short, eat dessert first. A wise man might have said that, but a wiser man said this: Sometimes you've got to choose between the thing you want and the thing that's good for you.
I used to be so indecisive. From food to clothes to friends to boys, I was never quite sure what I wanted. Some days, I was a total granola - all gung ho for celery, 8 glasses of H20 per day, and naaasty ass healthy sandwiches. Other days, all I wanted was for my metabolism to be that of an 8 year old boy - eating all the calories in sight.
Sometimes, you just gotta choose what you want. I mean, why not, you only live once right? But then it gets to the point where things start interfering with you and you gotta start choosing what's good for you.
Take example A. Girl meets boy. Make each other happy. They go out. Boy mistreats girl, says sorry, and girl holds on. Sure, the girl wants to be with him, but is it good for her? Is it right that she's spending more days unhappy in an abusive relationship, ready for the be-all end-all, while though she WANTs to be, she's losing sleep, happiness, time, and friends over it?
A goal for the week could be to choose what's good over what's wanted. Cause sometimes, the celery might just be that pick me up you need to get back on track.
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