Most people are all familiar with the Sesame Street character with a seemingly unnatural hunger for cookies, Cookie Monster. A Monster who spends all of his life's effort in search of the great to eat but nutritionally challenged cookie. The purpose of eating is as we all know to get vitamins, minerals, and calories which our bodies require to function properly. Cookie Monster would however rather just eat cookies because of there sweetness and quickly gratifying flavor. It's no wonder cookie monster looks the way he does with all the empty calories he is eating, his twitchy eyes because of his sugar high, his round figure, his fur which hasn't been maintained, I am not sure what blue has to do with it other than the fact that it may be what motivates him to eat so many cookies. Maybe if in his pursuit of cookies he would stop to take a look in the mirror he might have realized how little he resembles everyone else, and realized what the cookies were doing to him then he might stop or slow down.
One may laugh at the Cookie Monster reference, but how often do we fill our lives and time with "empty calories". There are many ways in which we feed our own personal cookie monsters, whether it is literally eating food which tastes good but is unhealthy or (even worse) filling our precious time with empty activities which are fun but do not help us further our situations or better the lives and those around us. Hey many people could say that writing this blog is feeding cookie monster (though I hope it has a little more meaning than that). It is okay to feed Cookie Monster and in fact healthy to do so every now and then, however the question becomes when is someone just feeding their Cookie Monster or being Cookie Monster themselves? Which I feel is a good question to ask oneself from time to time.
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