Chocolate belongs on a page all by itself. In no way does chocolate compare to smoking. Yes, it may be a sort of addiction, as I for one can testify; but I was wrong to suggest it was something to GIVE UP! GOD FORBID!!! Bear with me a minute:
Chocolate comes in many different versions. Although tobacco has different brands, they're basically the same.
Chocolate doesn't offend other people when one partakes. Whereas, smoking pollutes the air others around you breathe.
Chocolate is not harmful to one's health; except for overdosing(which normally calls for a potty break) Tobacco on the other hand---blah, blah, blah, we all know the hazards, so I won't go there.
Chocolate in the darkest form has recently been proven to be helpful to one's health as it is an antioxidant. YEA!!! To my knowledge, tobacco has no good benefit.
Chocolate does not come with filters to be later stuck in a potted plant or in the lake, or someones yard. In fact one can be caught licking the wrapper of chocolate to get every last morsel. (That's very embarassing) Yes, I know, there are a few idiots who litter with the wrappers, but not to the extent of the butts I see lying around or stuck in the dirt of a pot plant as if it's a Jobe fertilizer stick.
Chocolate is accepted by the FDA to add to recipes or to comsume by itself. Hee! Hee! Getting carried away aren't I? Tobacco has become TABOO
Chocolate doesn't smell up one's hair, skin or clothes. It doesn't discolor one's teeth or dry up one's skin. Tobacco- well, you know.
Chocolate doesn't require one to acquire the taste for it. One doesn't go thru misery to decide " yeah, this is what I've been looking for all my life" I'm sorry, I sense a bit of sarcastic humor spilling over. Anyway, with chocolate-you take it or leave it on the first try. Taste buds kind-of rule on it.
BUT, chocolate leave a sensational feeling of pleasure and contentment as I'm told tobacco does also. And so, comes the feeling of wanting more of it and wanting it on a regular basis. So, that takes me back to the beginning of comparing the two. In that sense, I can't imagine a life without chocolate, and it would be very hard to give it up if the dr. told me I had to for my health. But I can't compare it to trying to quit smoking. Those of you that want to quit, I really do feel for you in your quest to do so, should your decision be to quit.
What I have decided to do, instead is to exercise regularly. I do this for myself, b/c I know I need to. But it will be a challenge for me, maybe not as big as quitting smokes, b/c I've been out of practice so long due to uncontrollable circumstances. It's discouraging not to be able to do what used to be done and what your mind wants to do but body doesn't cooperate. I have a 70 yr. old lady in my support group that has inspired me to push myself to the limit in the privacy of my own home. She spurs me on along to do the uncomfortable- along side Wayne as he struggles doing the uncomfortable (something his body does not not want to cooperate in doing.)
The End!!
Mary Ann: i completely support your quest on exercising everyday. i think it's wonderful. i also know how big a deal that is for you. i know how tired your body gets due to your disease. my only thing was that your first impulse was to quit chocolate and i still think you should go with that. you should do both. quitting chocolate is a way of doing something that is really hard for your mind and beginning to exercise is something that is really hard for your body. smoking, unfortunately, is both. smoking is hard for your mind and your body to quit. all in all i don't think you should have to do anything but if you are going to do something comparable to dad, then do both. that's all i'm gonna say about it. of course until i talk to you tomorrow, because i'm sure we'll discuss this more. i love you and i am going to do this. one day soon.
ReplyDeleteMe in reply to Mary Ann: I disagree with excercise not being a mind thing also. Did you not read the discouraging part? That is a mind thing, because if I think I can't do it, then I don't even try. I think it surely does take both. (at least for me) Like I said, I can't possibly compare anything to the addiction of tobacco, hence the statement that I feel for you smokers, b/c I can't even imagine being in your shoes. So I chose something I also need to do and would be a challenge for me at the same time. Exercise will be helpful, chocolate has no bearing on my health. This exercise thing is NOT just a challenge for my body. My mind has to take me to the place to do it and actually take the first step. On the other hand, your mind can set out to exercise and you take the step with hardly a thought b/c you know with confidence that you can physically do it. You can't begin to understand my defeated feeling just as I can't totally understand the hold tobacco has on people. This all started wanting to do something so I could identify with Wayne. Then changed my blog b/c I realized there is nothing I could do that would identify with him, hence the feeling that I may have made smoking look easier than it really is.
ReplyDeleteThis is my story, and I'm sticking to it. nuff said by me, fear of repeating myself
Mark: I respectfully disagree with Mary. Only quit what is bad for your or harmful to others.
ReplyDeleteMark: Nevermind, Mary. I read what you wrote again and you said she shouldn't have to quit anything at all. Forget what I said. :)
ReplyDeleteMatthew: ¿Que?
ReplyDeleteJennifer: Smoking makes me have potty breaks.....
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