Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Life: A Three Course Meal


Life is a three course meal. I was eating dinner and I just realized that my life was essentially presented in front of me, metaphorically speaking. Well, not life in general, but our day. It consisted of meat, rice, and other compliments such as kimchi or onions. I'm pretty sure that this analogy has been done a million times, but it doesn't hurt to be done once more.
Basically, the rice represent the routines that we have in our lives, the things that we can't go through the day without doing.

So I actually made this into analogies of analogies and metaphors into metaphors. It's really confusing to write out, and it made sense in my head. I'll try my best to make sense and not sound stupid.

Anyways, what I want to say is that breakfast, lunch, and dinner represent our day (or life??). Breakfast would be whatever we do in the morning. The toast, waking up. The eggs, showering. The bacon, getting out of the house, doing whatever. Lunch comes around, which takes place during the most fun of the day. You eat lunch mostly while doing some sort of activity (that's how I picture lunch: a bunch of kids frolicking in a field with a picnic basket that has lunch inside). A sandwich represents our friends, chips would be the extra fun, the crunch and snap.
Then you finish it off with dinner. Sometimes dinner isn't the greatest meal of the day. My dinner consists of meat, rice, and vegetables. You eat the rice, which HAS to be there. In my day, that would be relaxation and chilling. Then there's the meat. Oh boy the meat is the best part, but it can't be enjoyed (for me) without the rice. I guess this represents my computer or whatever I do while relaxing. Maybe sleep. And if I'm lucky, then I won't have the vegetables, which I despise. Homework. The things that you leave last, bunched up on one edge of the plate. You make sure it doesn't mix with the rest of your meal, or else it'll somehow taint it without it's disgusting-ness (when I think of gross vegetables I think of green beans, those steamed gross things, not from the pea pod). Gross.

Today, I must say that I went without lunch and dinner consisted of an extra serving of vegetables. Time to eat!

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