I thought of this little story, because binging kinda reminds me of such a situation.
You walked for hours or even days, you are hungry and everything hurts. A train passes you and stops beside you, someone offers you food, you think about it for a moment but decide to get on the train, albeit it is going in the opposite direction of your original destination.
You intend to get off soon, but every wagon offers you more delicious food. And you’ve starved for so long. You walk through the wagons, every wagon representing a pound on the scale. The train is going so fast that you don’t even notice. When your mind is clear again after all the food, you realize how far away you are from your destination. But the train is so comfortable, even if you know that at some point you can’t ever return anymore.
You have to jump, but jumping means to be alone, far away from your destination, hell, far away from where you were (which was a lot closer to your destination than you are now), and walk all the way back, without food, with a hurting body, feeling weak and dizzy and hopeless. And yet, you jump, and start walking, because despite the despair and pain, your brain knows that if you just keep on walking, you will undoubtably get to your destination.
While you walk, several trains pass you, tempting you with whatever you dream of, but you won’t get on it anymore, because you know it will just bring you further away from your destination again, and will make your pain even greater in the end. Hell, you could be home now if you just had kept walking without giving in. Never again.
So be strong and endure, and you will inevitably reach your goal.
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