Life Is Like A Doughnut Eating Contest

So, I found this little video today of me and some friends competing in a doughnut eating contest at a Halloween party last year. Then it occurred to me. Life is like a doughnut eating contest… This will make sense, I promise*.

So, in life, sometimes we’re presented with a doughnut. The doughnut is a metaphor for something else in your life.

Now, sometimes we start to eat our delicious deliquescent when we suddenly realize that the people around us are also eating doughnuts. Suddenly the innately competitive nature eeks out of us and we start to see who can be the best doughnut eater. Will it be the fat, funny dude with the big mouth? Will it be that skinny blond girl who always gets everything her way? Will it be you?

It’s easy to get so distracted with other people chowing on their pastries that you forget that you have your own plate of goodness right in front of you.

At times, the opposite occurs. In order to prove a point, we devour our doughnuts so quickly that it can’t even really be considered ‘eating.’ It’s more just ribbing it all over your face to make it look like it’s gone… Thirty seconds later you get that thought. “Oh crap. Why did I do that?” You look like a mess. You feel gross because whatever doughnut made it into your mouth was not chewed more than 2 times before forced down your greedy gullet, and you realize that all of that hurry was worthless… there wasn’t even anything in the middle of the dang thing.

We need to learn that everyone eats their doughnut differently. It’s important to savor it. Enjoy it. Relish it. Because when it’s gone, all that’s left is that sick feeling in your stomach that reminds you that last time you ate a doughnut you had promised yourself that you wouldn’t do it again, even though you knew you would anyway…

*Ok, when I started this post, I thought there would be an obvious conclusion or lesson or something. The more I wrote, the more I realized that doughnuts have nothing to do with life lessons… except that it’s easier to put on 3 pounds than it is to take it off… even though you look attractive with or without the 3 pounds… er… yeah.

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@dean

consciousness.
the problem is balance between between being more conscious of others than ourselves and then, if we are ‘self’ conscious centric between the good kind and the detrimental kind.

a never-ending picture within a picture feat of balance… we can’t truly live without being conscious of others or the mass ‘other’ that is not ‘self’ otherwise we have nothing to measure ourselves by, but then we get addicted to one kind of measurement or ‘other’.

the human mind is at once frenetic and lazy, it hates to remain agile enough to keep switching between different measuring rods for the appropriate circumstance.

i see your eyes are open…

(speaking of which, your eyes in that video were really crazy creepy funny)
http://thecapitall.wordpress.com Savitri

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MOM

Here is another food analogy. We were visiting granparents and they had purchased one of those huge containers of mixed nuts from Sam’s Club. Everyone was eating them and I noticed that they were all picking out certain nuts. I asked everyone what their favorite nut was and the all replied that it was cashews. I asked G and G why they didn’t just buy a big huge thing of cashews instead of the mixed nuts if that is what they liked. Grandpa, in all his years of wisdom, answered , “Life isn’t like that, you don’t always get to have just cashews.” I guess he told me.