Domino Effect - it can be stopped!

The Domino Effect–You can stop the chain reaction!

Sometimes when you make one decision, it feels like your world becomes a domino game and that you cannot change what you’ve started. Have you ever felt that way? It’s called the “domino theory” – prominent in the 1950s when people believed that “if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow…” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org).

Well, today I felt like my life was a kind of domino effect, but with a twist. Imagine setting up the dominos in an elaborate pattern. You gingerly tip over the first one and watch.

You cannot distinguish when one domino falls into another; it all seems to happen in a fluid motion.

Suddenly, you realize that you do not want the dominoes to fall where you have arranged them, so you try to stop the chain reaction, but they are moving too fast.

Unexpectedly, an unknown force interrupts the flow. Was it a misplaced domino? Was it fate? Whatever it was, the room is silent and the chain reaction has been extinguished.

This is what happened today

That’s what happened to me today. I started my day eating healthily and doing well. Then, on the way to pick up my son from school, a kind of craving hit me. We have our favorite Italian Restaurant (1 minute from the house) and when we go there, we sit at the bar in the same spot. We know the bartender and the owner. They give Jake his coke and me my beer. Then we have some apps and order food to-go.

It’s fun. It’s time with my son. But it’s expensive and diet-wrecking.

So, here is the link to my video that I posted on the miraculous walk I took tonight because all signs pointed to pasta and beer, folks. The video is short, but if you don’t watch it I will recap here.

The restaurant was closed. We then went to another one, and as we were getting out of the car, Jake announced that he didn’t feel like it anymore.

I looked skyward and mumbled, “Okay. I guess I have to walk now.”

And the walk was awesome. Three miles. Fast pace. And, instead of eating heavy food and drinking some fantastic beer, I walked, did the laundry, and am here typing and being productive. Domino-us Interruptus.