If Broccoli tasted better than doughnuts...

...Life as we know it just might be a little different, and maybe a little less frustrating. But NO! The right way is almost always the harder way. Food provides a lovely microcosm for exploration of this concept. I venture to suggest that at least 90% of people would rather eat a doughnut over broccoli (unless you're me or my sister 5 years ago) because, despite the overwhelming nutritional advantages of eating broccoli, doughnuts taste way better. My sister and I used to joke about getting hypnotized one day into enjoying the taste of broccoli and other vegetables in the way we would enjoy ice cream or cake. THEN, it wouldn't have taken so much self discipline and force feeding ourselves depressing plates of green food--basically a vegetable patch-- as we tried to consume the proper things, conditioning our brains to forget things that taste good, things like real butter and sugar, and whole milk. *sigh*

The unfortunate extension of this phenomenon into real life, however, is the real depression. We have to end relationships, sever connections, and burn bridges all in honor of "the right thing." Why does the action have to be so severely painful? Why is the easy thing to do almost always wrong? What would the world be like if only we could all be hypnotized to really believe that it is so much easier and safer to speak plainly, and rather be much more afraid of lying; and on the other side, everyone be hypnotized to be comfortable knowing the truth when they hear it.
We do we have to fight to be good?and true? and honorable? Why can't the slippery slope go up instead of down? It is so easy to fall, and so difficult to get up. Is this the only way we appreciate anything?