better learn balance- balance is key

"whole life have a balance. everything be better."
- mr. miyagi

oh, wise words. if only i had remembered it this morning as i poured my cereal. i might've been able to save myself a lot of grief. so, here's what happened:

i was choosing between cookie crisps, peanut butter captain crunch, and this healthy flakey stuff that had honey oat clusters. naturally, i went with the healthy option. but i couldn't deal with just eating plain flakes so i started looking for raisins, because bananas turned my milk goopy last time and i didn't really want to repeat that. however, after locating bags and bags of dried pitted prunes and craisins grouped together, i came to the conclusion that if there were raisins, they would've been there, among its dried fruit counterparts. so i did what i had to and settled for craisins. in that state of mind, i made my first big mistake- i poured the milk first. now, any child can tell you this is a bad. idea. you never pour the milk first! it can never lead to anything good. ever. predictably, when i poured the amount of cereal i wanted to eat, i found that i had way. too. much. milk. knowing that i had brought it upon myself and unwilling to waste the milk, i decided to stop being such a child and accept this disastrous disproportion. i moved on and added in the craisins. however, seeing the craisins just bobbing there in too much milk was more than i could take so i grabbed another handful of cereal and doubled the cereal. at this point, the cereal could no longer be submerged by the milk, even with some coercion from my spoon, and i realized what i had done- i had gone too far to the other extreme! i knew what i had to do. i approached the fridge and once more removed the milk and began pouring into my bowl, cautiously, mind you. and the milk and cereal proportion was right at last and i saw that it was good. but then, i couldn't see the craisins anymore and i was like oh, maybe i need more craisins. so i light-heartedly poured in more craisins, unknowingly upsetting the balance once more. when i mixed the whole thing, i uncovered the terrible truth- i had way too many craisins! what could i do but add more milk and cereal? but i put my foot down and said, enough is enough. i decided i was going to brave through all the craisins. keep in mind, i don't really like craisins. i was just using them to substitute for the absentee raisins. so there i was eating, eating, eating and when i got 2/3 through my bowl, i couldn't do it anymore- i couldn't stand to eat all those craisins by themselves, for they were all that were left basically, and so, i added more milk and more cereal and finally achieved a perfect balance at a perfect breakfast amount. but sadly, at that point, i had already eaten 3829472034 times as much as the perfect amount and i not only did not enjoy it, i had to force it all down. life's hard. the end.