Day 201 "Donuts And Denials"

In the pursuit of living healthy you inevitably stop along the way to try something not so healthy.

Every single one of us knows what is good for us, and even who is good for us.

Yet we still eat and embrace with abandon don’t we?

All of us know the consequences of our actions when we stray from the safe path, the path usually less exciting than the one that might do us in and break us down in the end.

Even though we know we should not keep the company of strangers, we still stray and get lost with the strangest of them anyway.

In the pursuit of trying to outrun the clock a moment longer we make promises, to slow down, or to devour less, and to love with clenched fists ready for the worst, in the hopes that we can protect the best.

Yet we still, and forever, take Time The Thief for granted, .and we fall back into the exciting addictions of the past.

Why when we know what it takes to live a moment longer, to protect out hearts a second more, do we still challenge the Fates with stepping out of the lines so much?

Is it because it makes us feel alive?

Perhaps because it ignites our desire to feel and experience the dangerous unknown, for the emotional payoff of surviving the choice that we knew we should have never made?

Who knows why we put off a healthy and responsible choice until tomorrow?

Perhaps it makes us feel alive more than we do?

Perhaps it makes us stronger in the end?

Perhaps it just tastes too good not to indulge in a bit more than we know we ever should?