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Saturday, March 18, 2017

Opus 2017-087: On the Street: The Smell of Failure

I continue to struggle with my weight.  I am not winning.  That is the bad news.  The good news is that I am not even close to giving up.  I have been here before but usually when I reach my goal on weight loss I just start eating again.  I am sure that if weight is a problem, you have been there with me.  I am still in the battle.

That doesn’t mean that the smell of bacon and cheese has stopped calling to me.  Oh, the temptations of breakfast.  As I walk down the aisle with my piece of bread and coffee I can smell all the good stuff being prepared a few feet away.  Surely it won’t hurt if I indulge myself today.  Just one day won’t make a difference, right?  Wrong.

I look at my piece of bread and smell the bacon.  I enjoy the smell but I call up the vision of a needle dripping insulin.  That is my future if I give in to my appetite. 

The Battle of the Bulge continues.  I don’t claim to be as heroic as the men who fought that in World War II but if I fail my destiny is just as final.

homo unius libri

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    1. I guess I could look at it that as long as I can smell bacon I am still alive.

      Grace and peace

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