The Peanut M&Ms...
Imagine, if you will, a bag of peanut M&M's. In order to get that bag of peanut M&M's, you worked hard. You love peanut M&M's, even though the peanut in the M&M's sometimes leave your stomach feeling sour. You still enjoy the taste so much that you don't want anything else. It is, after all, what you worked so hard to obtain.
Now, imagine, one day you open up your bag of peanut M&M's only to find that there are no peanuts. Instead, an empty, hollow shell of chocolate and candy coating. At first, you are in a daze. You don't know what you are supposed to do. You try to eat one of the empty M&M's, but it just isn't the same. The core, the peanut, the one thing that you loved the most, just isn't there. After the first initial shock, your next immediate reaction may be to throw the rest of the bag away. After all, the whole reason for buying a bag of peanut M&M's was because you loved the peanut.
It was the core. It was what the rest of the M&M was built around. Sure, you love the taste of the chocolate and the candy coating, but in order for it to have been a peanut M&M, it needed that one ingredient. The taste changed. There is no core, no peanut. Everything that you worked so hard for... and it has changed. The taste is completely different and the peanut is gone. You don't mind the taste of the rest of the M&M, but you still miss the peanut. Throwing away the bag would be the easy way out.
Here I am. Forced to eat the M&M's that I worked so hard for, without the one ingredient that made me work so hard in the first place. Sure, there are other peanuts and eventully, I can buy a bag of peanuts to go with my hollow M&M's. But at what point do I just go and buy another bag? The chocolate and candy coating, like close friends, will always be there. But when should I find a bag with the peanuts inside? How can I enjoy my peanut M&M's when the inside is so hollow and empty? The taste of the chocolate and candy coating is comforting. It's still M&M's that I bought, that I worked hard to obtain and that I still love. But that one ingredient is still missing...
Imagine, if you will, a bag of peanut M&M's. In order to get that bag of peanut M&M's, you worked hard. You love peanut M&M's, even though the peanut in the M&M's sometimes leave your stomach feeling sour. You still enjoy the taste so much that you don't want anything else. It is, after all, what you worked so hard to obtain.
Now, imagine, one day you open up your bag of peanut M&M's only to find that there are no peanuts. Instead, an empty, hollow shell of chocolate and candy coating. At first, you are in a daze. You don't know what you are supposed to do. You try to eat one of the empty M&M's, but it just isn't the same. The core, the peanut, the one thing that you loved the most, just isn't there. After the first initial shock, your next immediate reaction may be to throw the rest of the bag away. After all, the whole reason for buying a bag of peanut M&M's was because you loved the peanut.
It was the core. It was what the rest of the M&M was built around. Sure, you love the taste of the chocolate and the candy coating, but in order for it to have been a peanut M&M, it needed that one ingredient. The taste changed. There is no core, no peanut. Everything that you worked so hard for... and it has changed. The taste is completely different and the peanut is gone. You don't mind the taste of the rest of the M&M, but you still miss the peanut. Throwing away the bag would be the easy way out.
Here I am. Forced to eat the M&M's that I worked so hard for, without the one ingredient that made me work so hard in the first place. Sure, there are other peanuts and eventully, I can buy a bag of peanuts to go with my hollow M&M's. But at what point do I just go and buy another bag? The chocolate and candy coating, like close friends, will always be there. But when should I find a bag with the peanuts inside? How can I enjoy my peanut M&M's when the inside is so hollow and empty? The taste of the chocolate and candy coating is comforting. It's still M&M's that I bought, that I worked hard to obtain and that I still love. But that one ingredient is still missing...