I broke my protocol the last five days. Each time I walk by my favorite bakeries I give in to urges and buy pastries.
I thought how does my future self who doesn’t care about pastries behave or think when she walks past them? And I believe she’s got better places to go and it doesn’t even cross her mind to go there just like it wouldn’t cross my mind to enter a dry cleaning shop if I have nothing to give for cleaning.
But right now I am not her. It does cross my mind. I can’t pretend that it doesn’t. It crosses my mind, it blows steam each time I know that I will pass by there.
How then do I behave like her if we don’t have the same thoughts?