Green beans.
Oh how I loathe them. I realize not everyone shares my utter disgust for the evil bean, so you will have to try and find your food equivalent.
Barbecue chicken.
Oh how I love it. Again, think of your food equivalent and insert in the place of barbecue chicken for the remainder of this blog.
Let me ask you something now. If you had the option of eating green beans right now, or barbecue chicken later, which would you choose? If you are a rational human being, you are voting for the barbecue chicken.
What could possibly motivate you to eat the green beans? Look at them. Come on now, you know they are not going to make you happy. If you eat those green beans right now, you are going to be full by the time the barbecue chicken comes around. You are going to sit there with the awful aftertaste of green bean in your mouth while everyone else enjoys the chicken.
Was it worth it? Were those few moments of satiating your hunger with a lesser form of food worth missing out on the real meal?
Why are you wasting your time eating something you really don't like? You know there is something better out there, is it really that hard to wait for it? Do you really need the comfort of that food so badly right now that you are willing to miss out on the real stuff?
To each their own. As for me? Bring on the barbecue chicken!
Metaphor- A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison
