Not having your choice...

Last night, me and him had dinner at the food court at Bugis Junction after our appointment with the consultant from Shangri-la. Nothing very eventful but... i am really dying to have some ramen. Along the way to Bugis, something got into my head that i would like to have ramen and i guess the idea stuck. He was okie with it, but once we got there, he mentioned eating at the food court instead. I guess i ought to have insisted to have ramen but decided that i wasn't going to 'be difficult' since it was only food. When i was at the food court, i couldn't really decide what i wanted because there wasn't really anything that i wanted from there at all. Still, i had to make a choice and picked yong tau hu. Throughout dinner, while eating yong tau hu, i kept thinking about ramen.

Hot soupy ramen.

Yong tau hu never tasted worse but it 'felt' even more miserable because i could actually be eating ramen instead. In the end, i finished my yong tau hu, a most unsatisfying meal. So much so that i impulsively went to buy an old chang kee curry puff to try and meet that need for satisfaction, despite the fact that i was having a sorethroat. As it turned out, i couldn't even finish the curry puff (though it tasted better) and now my throat seems to be worse.

Not a very interesting story but... while chewing my curry puff a rather interesting analogy came to mind. I realized how much marriage can be like that if we don't follow our hearts when choosing a partner. I could marry someone I never really wanted (i.e. Mr Yong Tau Hu) and have a really miserable marriage because i would keep thinking of Mr Ramen. And to satisfy my needs, started to have an affair with Mr Curry Puff but lived to regret it later, leaving me to wish that I had insisted on marrying Mr Ramen in the first place.

So the moral of the story, if you could call it that is... If i have insisted on what i really wanted instead of going along with what others' wanted, i would not be sitting here typing this, while nursing a sorethroat. But then, thankfully i have defintely picked the right guy for marriage.I just need to work on the choosing where to eat bit. *grins*