Cooked Carrots...YUCK!!!

I despise cooked carrots, just hate the flavor, the texture. I will do everything I can to avoid eating a cooked carrot. Like them fresh, but not cooked. Yet, the other day I made a stir fry kind of thing that included in the mix, cooked carrots. YUCK!

I did force myself to eat them, just like your mom did when you were a kid with something similar. I forced myself to eat them, not because they are good for me (I cannot imagine that after you cook something like a carrot down that it has anywhere near the nutrients that it had before....) but BECAUSE I didn't want to. I mean let's face it....how many things do we do that we don't want to do? I didn't have to do it, but I wanted to, BECAUSE I didn't want to.

What I mean by that is, I am taking myself in a new direction (hopefully) and with a new journey you will always have bumps in the road. You have to bear down and just accept the bumps, and know they will be there, and hope that in that moment, you are strong enough to not only face them, but overcome them. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't consider a cooked carrot to be a bump in the road....it's just a carrot. But for me it was about saying "Okay, you are going to do this right, if you are going to do it, and some stupid cooked carrot is not going to be your downfall". (It will likely be my love for chocolate, but that is a story for another time!) Taking this in a different direction will only happen if I TRULY take it in a different direction, and not just pretend to myself that I am doing it. The cooked carrot is a metaphor for what I am hoping to overcome. (Right about now, "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy" comes to mind....makes me laugh at myself....)

Again, I am not sure if it will make a difference or not, but hey, when we try that different road, there may be something down there that we don't like, or don't know....but let's face it....sometimes what is comfortable and familiar to us is not necessarily the best for us, either.