Similes & Metaphors

There are a few things I'd like to share.

First, this is a thought I had while trying to stay away from pornography and having troubles. This is what it felt like for me to try and try and fail each and every time:

Imagine you own a cake factory, a beautiful factory with a marvelous oven. You make amazing, beautiful cakes to enjoy and to share. Then one day you find this secret setting for your oven that bakes the cakes and other sweets so marvelously and gorgeously and much faster than any other setting, in fact this setting makes the best, most perfect delights you have ever seen; there is nothing to rival it in all your life. You begin to use this setting only tentatively at first, not wanting to over use it and possibly break it. Each of these cakes brings you great happiness and satisfaction, and the sweets the secret setting even more so. As time goes on you begin to use the setting more and more often until the majority of your creations are being made with this wonderful setting. Your oven is now mostly producing product from this setting, with nearly 95% or more sweets being made with it, the lesser settings just will not do; their creations are vile and repulsive in comparison to the secret setting. Then one day, a cake you were baking explodes while being baked on the secret setting, with cake batter and other ingredients flying EVERYWHERE in your beautiful, immaculate kitchen. The batter from this setting gets incredibly hot and sticks to the walls and the floor surprisingly tight. You immediately then off your oven and set about cleaning up the batter and baking mess, trying to salvage as much as possible. With success you resume your baking duties but avoiding the secret setting for a time, hoping to avoid a further meltdown. Sadly, the cakes and sweets you are making now just don't measure up to the grand and awe inspiring creations from the secret setting. You dare to use it one more time, after all so ,much time has passed, it must be safe. You make a wonderful and amazing cake, a castle of a cake, with great success on the secret setting. You feel more confident that things are back to normal and you resume use of the secret setting to make the most marvelous creations yet, with each one more grand than the next. Yet again one day, the oven overheats and the cake gets everywhere. Again you repeat the process of cleaning and limiting use. 

    Eventually, the secret setting always explode always creates disaster and havoc. Your walls and floor and beginning to look more like cake and other sweets. They refuse to be cleaned anymore. Your oven now is stuck making things on the secret setting and cannot be turned off. Its as if it has taken on a life of its own and now create cakes twisted and foul smelling, yet the production never ceasing. This still brings wonder into your eyes, but you begin to worry and despair that you will never be able to stop it. Even unplugged it continues on in some horrible machination of life, taunting you to stop it. So you do the only thing you can do... You grab your cleaning tools and set about clearing away the mess. Your mop and broom cease to be useful, as the floor is mostly cake batter, ruined and soggy. You try a vacuum only to have it erupt in flames as the motor burns out. Your are left with a flat bladed chisel and a hammer. Slowly, painfully you begin to chip away at the filth and refuse clinging to the walls and floor, slowly clearing away a spot at a time. Sadly, just as soon as you clear away a small section, the oven regurgitates a steaming pile of batter, covering your progress as if on purpose. You continue at this futile attempt to clean and recover again only to be thwarted by the infernal oven. It seems no amount of work on your part is working, your once thriving business of cakes and sweets has been ruined, with all knowing you have fallen into disarray and dishonor, none daring to venture into your shop. 

   The point of this little metaphor is to know, and remember  that you have a whole CASTLE for your use! You have other rooms to go into, you can stop worrying about the possessed oven and go enjoy other parts of your house. Go throw a party in the ballroom, go tend to your plants in the green house. The oven will eventually go out. The more time and energy we waste in trying to clean up after it or condemn it for being the way it is will only end up feeding it more. The more attention we give it the more power it has over us. Leave the oven and go enjoy your castle!